Faulting and folding beneath the Canterbury Plains identified prior to the 2010 emergence of the Greendale Fault

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 169-176

  Jongens, R ^a   Barrell, D J A ^a   Campbell, J K ^b   Pettinga, J R ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ashley Fault; Canterbury; Greendale Fault; Hororata fault; Late Cenozoic; Late Cretaceous; Racecourse hill anticline; Seismic reflection; Springbank fault; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULTING; FOLDING; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GRABEN; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; TECTONIC SETTING;

CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; CANTERBURY PLAINS; CHRISTCHURCH [CANTERBURY]; MOUNT COOK; NEW ZEALAND; RAKAIA RIVER; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

RAKAIA;

EID: 84866998208     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2012.674050     Document Type: Article

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