Focusing of relative plate motion at a continental transform fault: Cenozoic dextral displacement >700 km on New Zealand's Alpine Fault, reversing >225 km of Late Cretaceous sinistral motion

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1197-1213

  Lamb, Simon ^a   Mortimer, Nick ^b   Smith, Euan ^a   Turner, Gillian ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

continental tectonics

Indexed keywords

TECTONICS; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

CONTINENTAL TECTONICS; CONTINENTAL TRANSFORM; LATE CRETACEOUS; PACIFIC PLATES; PLATE MOTIONS; SINISTRAL SHEAR; SLIP DISPLACEMENTS; WEST ANTARCTICA;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

AUSTRALIAN PLATE; CRETACEOUS; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; GONDWANA; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE MOTION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRANSFORM FAULT;

ALPINE FAULT ZONE; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 84963567640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GC006225     Document Type: Article

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