Analysis of lineaments and their relationship to Neogene fracturing, SE Viti Levu, Fiji

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 1544-1555

  Rahiman, Tariq I H ^a   Pettinga, Jarg R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Faults; Fiji; Fractures; Lineaments; Remote sensing imagery

Indexed keywords

FAULT ZONE; FAULTS; FIELD STUDIES; FIJI; FRACTURE PATTERN; LINEAMENTS; MAPPING TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLE SET; NEO GENES; OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION; PLANAR DISCONTINUITY; PLATE BOUNDARIES; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SPATIAL EXTENT; STRUCTURAL PATTERN; SURFACE FRACTURE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC FRACTURES;

FRACTURE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MAPPING; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AUSTRALIAN PLATE; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; LINEAMENT; NEOGENE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMIC HAZARD; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

FIJI; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); VITI LEVU;

EID: 69949150264     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26264.1     Document Type: Article

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