Geometry and scale of fault segmentation and deformational bulging along an active oblique-slip fault (Wairarapa fault, New Zealand)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 1365-1381

  Carne, R C ^a   Little, T A ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCKS; DISTRIBUTED DEFORMATION; FAULT PLANES; FAULT SEGMENTATION; FAULT STRANDS; FAULT ZONE; FIELD DATA; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FLUVIAL GRAVELS; GENERAL MODEL; GLACIAL MAXIMA; NEAR-SURFACE; NEW ZEALAND; SHALLOW DEPTHS; STEP-OVERS; SURFACE TRACES; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; SEPARATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

GRAVEL;

ACTIVE FAULT; ASYMMETRY; BASEMENT ROCK; DEFORMATION; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT PLANE; FAULT ZONE; GRAVEL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OBLIQUE FAULT; SEGMENTATION; SLIP; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WAIRARAPA;

EID: 84865158788     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30535.1     Document Type: Article

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