A Continental Plate Boundary

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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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 vii David Okaya
Tim Stern
and Fred Davey Continent-Continent Collision at the Pacific/Indo-Australian Plate Boundary: Background
Motivation
and Principal Results 1 David Okaya
Tim Stern
Fred Davey
Stuart Henrys
and Simon Cox SECTION I: Regional Framework of Pacific/Indo-Australian Plate Boundary Regional Geological Framework of South Island
New Zealand
and its Significance for Understanding the Active Plate Boundary 19 Simon C. Cox and Rupert Sutherland Geophysical Structure of the Southern Alps Orogen
South Island
New Zealand 47 F.J. Davey
D. Eberhart-Phillips
M.D. Kohler
S. Bannister
G. Caldwell
S. Henrys
M. Scherwath
T. Stern
and H. van Avendonk Kinematic Constraints From GPS on Oblique Convergence of the Pacific and Australian Plates
Central South Island
New Zealand 75 John Beavan
Susan Ellis
Laura Wallace
and Paul Denys Seismic Anisotropy in South Island
New Zealand 95 Martha Kane Savage
Mathieu Duclos
Katrina Marson-Pidgeon Crustal Thickness and Pn Anisotropy Beneath the Southern Alps Oblique Collision
New Zealand 117 S. Bourguignon
M. K. Savage and T. Stern Compressional and Shear Wave Velocities in South Island New Zealand Rocks and Their Application to the Interpretation of Seismological Models of the New Zealand Crust 125 Nikolas I. Christensen and David A. Okaya SECTION II: The Plate Boundary (Alpine Fault) & Associated Mountain Building (Southern Alps) The Alpine Fault
New Zealand: Surface Geology and Field Relationships 159 Richard J. Norris and Alan F. Cooper Deformation of the Pacific Plate Above the Alpine Fault Ramp and its Relationship to Expulsion of Metamorphic Fluids: An Array of Backshears 179 Ruth H. Wightman and Timothy A. Little Geophysical Exploration and Dynamics of the Alpine Fault Zone 209 Tim Stern
David Okaya
Stefan Kleffmann
Martin Scherwath
Stuart Henrys
and Fred Davey Do Great Earthquakes Occur on the Alpine Fault in Central South Island
New Zealand? 237 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 SECTION III: Plate Boundary Dynamics Three-Dimensional Geodynamic Framework for the Central Southern Alps
New Zealand: Integrating Geology
Geophysics and Mechanical Observations 255 Phaedra Upton and Peter O. Koons Transpression Models and Ductile Deformation of the Lower Crust of the Pacific Plate in the Central Southern Alps
a Perspective From Structural Geology 273 Timothy Little
Ruth Wightman
Rodney J. Holcombe
and Matthew Hill Modeling Strain and Anisotropy Along the Alpine Fault
South Island
New Zealand 291 M. K. Savage
A. Tommasi
S. Ellis
and J. Chery SECTION IV: Comparisons A Comparison Between the Transpressional Plate Boundaries of South Island
New Zealand
and Southern California
USA: The Alpine and San Andreas Fault Systems 309 Gary S. Fuis
Monica D. Kohler
Martin Scherwath
Uri ten Brink
Harm J.A. Van Avendonk
and Janice M. Murphy Taiwan and South Island
New Zealand-A Comparison of Continental Collisional Orogenies 331 F. Wu
F. Davey
and D. Okaya Seismogenic
Electrically Conductive
and Fluid Zones at Continental Plate Boundaries in New Zealand
Himalaya
and California
USA 349 George R. Jiracek
Victor M. Gonzalez
T. Grant Caldwell
Philip E. Wannamaker
and Debi Kilb