Kinematic Constraints from GPS on Oblique Convergence of the Pacific and Australian Plates, Central South Island, New Zealand

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 75-94

  Beavan, John ^a   Ellis, Susan ^a   Wallace, Laura ^a   Denys, Paul ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; KINEMATICS; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); NUMERICAL MODELS; VELOCITY;

HIGH-CONDUCTIVITY ZONES; INELASTIC DEFORMATION; KINEMATIC CONSTRAINTS; MAGNETOTELLURIC STUDIES; NEW ZEALAND; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SOUTH ISLAND , NEW ZEALAND; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

FAULTING;

EID: 84952661823     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/175GM05     Document Type: Chapter

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