A 2300-year paleoearthquake record of the southern alpine fault and Fiordland subduction zone, New Zealand, based on stacked turbidites

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2424-2446

  Barnes, Philip M ^a   Bostock, Helen C ^a   Neil, Helen L ^a   Strachan, Lorna J ^b   Gosling, Matthew ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIABILITIES; EARTHQUAKE RECORDS; EXTREME STORM EVENTS; MEAN RECURRENCE INTERVALS; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; TRIGGERING MECHANISM;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; FAULTING; LEAD; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; STORMS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; EMPLACEMENT; EXTREME EVENT; FAULT; FORAMINIFERA; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOSEISMICITY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC SOURCE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC PLATE; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITY CURRENT; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT;

ALPINE FAULT ZONE; FIORDLAND; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84881053972     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120314     Document Type: Article

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