Late Holocene rupture history of the alpine fault in South Westland, New Zealand

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 620-638

  Berryman, Kelvin ^a   Cooper, Alan ^b   Norris, Richard ^b   Villamor, Pilar ^a   Sutherland, Rupert ^a   Wright, Trevor ^b   Schermer, Elizabeth ^c   Langridge, Robert ^a   Biasi, Glenn ^d  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE FAULTS; DATA SETS; FAULTING EVENTS; FLOOD-PLAINS; LATE HOLOCENE; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; SOUTH WESTLAND , NEW ZEALAND; STREAM CHANNELS;

GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY;

FAULTING;

DATA SET; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC DATA;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; WEST COAST [SOUTH ISLAND];

EID: 84859115591     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110177     Document Type: Article

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