Modeling Strain and Anisotropy Along the Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand

A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 289-305

  Savage, M K ^a   Tommasi, A ^b   Ellis, S ^c   Chery, J ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Continental margins New Zealand South Island; Plate tectonics New Zealand South Island

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DEFORMATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY PATTERNS; CONTINENTAL LANDMASS; CRYSTAL PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SOUTH ISLAND , NEW ZEALAND; STRIKE-SLIP DEFORMATION;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

EID: 84952650010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/175GM15     Document Type: Chapter

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