A continental plate boundary : tectonics at South Island, New Zealand / David Okaya, Tim Stern, Fred Davey, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davey, Frederick J.

Okaya, David Akiharu.

Stern, Timothy A.

Series:

Geophysical monograph series ; no. 175.

Geophysical monograph series ; 175

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Continental margins--New Zealand--South Island.

Continental margins.

Plate tectonics--New Zealand--South Island.

Plate tectonics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Geophysical Union, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 175.A Continental Plate Boundary offers in one place the most comprehensive, up-to-date knowledge for researchers and students to learn about the tectonics and plate dynamics of the Pacific-Australian continental plate boundary in South Island and about the application of modern geological and geophysical methods. It examines what happens when convergence and translation occur at a plate boundary byDescribing the geological and geophysical signature of a continental transf

Contents:

Title Page; Contents; Preface; Boundary: Background, Motivation, and Principal Results; 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; Geophysical Structure of the Southern Alps Orogen, South Island, New Zealand; Kinematic Constraints From GPS on Oblique Convergence of the Pacific and Australian Plates,Central South Island, New Zealand; Seismic Anisotropy in South Island, New Zealand

Crustal Thickness and Pn Anisotropy Beneath the Southern Alps Oblique Collision, New ZealandCompressional and Shear Wave Velocities in South Island, New Zealand Rocks and Their Application to the Interpretation of Seismological Models of the New Zealand Crust; SECTION II: The Plate Boundary (Alpine Fault) & Associated Mountain Building(Southern Alps); The Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Surface Geology and Field Relationships; Deformation of the Pacific Plate Above the Alpine Fault Ramp and its Relationship to Expulsion of Metamorphic Fluids: An Array of Backshears

Geophysical Exploration and Dynamics of the Alpine Fault ZoneDo Great Earthquakes Occur on the Alpine Fault in Central South Island, New Zealand?; SECTION III: Plate Boundary Dynamics; Three-Dimensional Geodynamic Framework for the Central Southern Alps, New Zealand: Integrating Geology, Geophysics and Mechanical Observations; Transpression Models and Ductile Deformation of the Lower Crust of the Pacific Plate in theCentral Southern Alps, a Perspective From Structural Geology; Modeling Strain and Anisotropy Along the Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand; 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 SystemsTaiwan and South Island, New Zealand: A Comparison of Continental Collisional Orogenies; Seismogenic, Electrically Conductive, and Fluid Zones at Continental Plate Boundaries in New Zealand, Himalaya, and California, USA

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781118666142

1118666143

9781118671771

1118671775

9781118672471

111867247X

OCLC:

772504575