Quaternary deformation along the Wharekauhau fault system, North Island, New Zealand: Implications for an unstable linkage between active strike-slip and thrust faults

Tectonics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Schermer, Elizabeth R ^a   Little, Timothy A ^b   Rieser, Uwe ^b  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUMINESCENCE; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

ACTIVE DEFORMATION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEXTRAL SLIP; FAULT SYSTEM; FAULT ZONE; LATE QUATERNARY; NEW ZEALAND; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PLATE INTERFACES; PLATE MOTIONS; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA; STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; THRUST FAULTS; UPPER PLATE;

DEFORMATION;

ACTIVE FAULT; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; NORMAL FAULT; OBLIQUE FAULT; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST FAULT;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WAIRARAPA;

EID: 77955512475     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008TC002426     Document Type: Article

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