A Continental Plate Boundary

Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand
Herausgeber: Okaya, David; Davey, Fred; Stern, Tim

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 175

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 369
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 269mm x 224mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 1383g
• ISBN-13: 9780875904405
• ISBN-10: 0875904408
• Artikelnr.: 53303652

Autorenporträt

David Okaya Associate Professor at USC Earth Sciencies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
David Okaya, Tim Stern, and Fred Davey vii

Continent-Continent Collision at the Pacific/Indo-AustralianPlate Boundary:
Background, Motivation, and Principal Results
David Okaya, Tim Stern, Fred Davey, Stuart Henrys, and SimonCox 1

SECTION I: Regional Framework of Pacific/Indo-Australian PlateBoundary

Regional Geological Framework of South Island, New Zealand, andits Significance for
Understanding the Active Plate Boundary
Simon C. Cox and Rupert Sutherland 19

Geophysical Structure of the Southern Alps Orogen, South Island,New Zealand
F.J. Davey, D. Eberhart-Phillips, M.D. Kohler, S. Bannister, G.Caldwell, S. Henrys, M. Scherwath, T. Stern, and H. vanAvendonk 47

Kinematic Constraints From GPS on Oblique Convergence of thePacific and Australian Plates,
Central South Island, New Zealand
John Beavan, Susan Ellis, Laura Wallace, and Paul Denys75

Seismic Anisotropy in South Island, New Zealand
Martha Kane Savage, Mathieu Duclos, Katrina Marson-Pidgeon95

Crustal Thickness and Pn Anisotropy Beneath the Southern AlpsOblique Collision, New Zealand
S. Bourguignon, M. K. Savage and T. Stern 117

Compressional and Shear Wave Velocities in South Island NewZealand Rocks and Their Application
to the Interpretation of Seismological Models of the New ZealandCrust
Nikolas I. Christensen and David A. Okaya 125

SECTION II: The Plate Boundary (Alpine Fault) & AssociatedMountain Building
(Southern Alps)

The Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Surface Geology and FieldRelationships
Richard J. Norris and Alan F. Cooper 159

Deformation of the Pacific Plate Above the Alpine Fault Ramp andits Relationship to Expulsion of
Metamorphic Fluids: An Array of Backshears
Ruth H. Wightman and Timothy A. Little 179

Geophysical Exploration and Dynamics of the Alpine FaultZone
Tim Stern, David Okaya, Stefan Kleffmann, Martin Scherwath, StuartHenrys, and Fred Davey 209

Do Great Earthquakes Occur on the Alpine Fault in Central SouthIsland, New Zealand?
R. Sutherland, D. Eberhart-Phillips, R.A. Harris, T. Stern, J.Beavan, S. Ellis, S. Henrys, S. Cox, R.J.
Norris, K.R. Berryman, J. Townend, S. Bannister, J. Pettinga, B.Leitner, L. Wallace, T.A. Little, A.F.
Cooper, M. Yetton, and M. Stirling 237

SECTION III: Plate Boundary Dynamics

Three-Dimensional Geodynamic Framework for the Central SouthernAlps, New Zealand:
Integrating Geology, Geophysics and Mechanical Observations
Phaedra Upton and Peter O. Koons 255

Transpression Models and Ductile Deformation of the Lower Crustof the Pacific Plate in the
Central Southern Alps, a Perspective From Structural Geology
Timothy Little, Ruth Wightman, Rodney J. Holcombe, and MatthewHill 273

Modeling Strain and Anisotropy Along the Alpine Fault, SouthIsland, New Zealand
M. K. Savage, A. Tommasi, S. Ellis, and J. Chery 291

SECTION IV: Comparisons

A Comparison Between the Transpressional Plate Boundaries ofSouth Island, New Zealand,
and Southern California, USA: The Alpine and San Andreas FaultSystems
Gary S. Fuis, Monica D. Kohler, Martin Scherwath, Uri ten Brink,Harm J.A. Van Avendonk,
and Janice M. Murphy 309

Taiwan and South Island, New Zealand--A Comparison ofContinental Collisional Orogenies
F. Wu, F. Davey, and D. Okaya 331

Seismogenic, Electrically Conductive, and Fluid Zones atContinental Plate Boundaries in New Zealand,
Himalaya, and California, USA
George R. Jiracek, Victor M. Gonzalez, T. Grant Caldwell, PhilipE. Wannamaker, and Debi Kilb 349