Faulting in banks peninsula: Tectonic setting and structural controls for late miocene intraplate volcanism, New Zealand

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 169, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 773-785

  Ring, Uwe ^a,b   Hampton, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT-SLIP DATUM; LATE MIOCENE; NEW ZEALAND; NORMAL FAULTS; REVERSE FAULTS; SOUTH ISLAND , NEW ZEALAND; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONIC SETTINGS; VOLCANIC EDIFICE;

KINEMATICS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

FAULTING;

CRETACEOUS; FAULTING; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84868529058     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2011-167     Document Type: Article

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