High-resolution seismic images of potentially seismogenic structures beneath the northwest Canterbury Plains, New Zealand

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Dorn, C ^a,b   Green, A G ^a   Jongens, R ^a   Carpentier, S ^a   Kaiser, A E ^a   Campbell, F ^a   Horstmeyer, H ^a   Campbell, J ^c   Finnemore, M ^d   Pettinga, J ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; AFTERSHOCK; ANTICLINE; AUSTRALIAN PLATE; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; FAULTING; FOLDING; FOOTWALL; HANGING WALL; PACIFIC PLATE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION;

CANTERBURY PLAINS; CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 78249255237     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007459     Document Type: Article

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