Continental transforms: A view from the Alpine Fault

RJ Norris, VG Toy - Journal of Structural Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Continental transform faults are dominantly highly localized strike-slip shear zones
hundreds of kilometers long that accumulate tens to hundreds of kilometers of displacement …

The 2016 Kaikōura, New Zealand, earthquake: preliminary seismological report

A Kaiser, N Balfour, B Fry, C Holden… - Seismological …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The 2016 M w 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake continued a notable decade of
damaging earthquake impacts in New Zealand. The effects were wide ranging across the …

Past large earthquakes on the Alpine Fault: paleoseismological progress and future directions

JD Howarth, UA Cochran, RM Langridge… - New Zealand Journal …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Paleoseismology has been making an important contribution to understanding the Alpine
Fault and the hazard it poses to society. However, evidence of past earthquakes comes from …

The Mw 6.2 Christchurch earthquake of February 2011: preliminary report

A Kaiser, C Holden, J Beavan, D Beetham… - New Zealand journal …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract A moment magnitude (Mw) 6.2 earthquake struck beneath the outer suburbs of
Christchurch, New Zealand's second largest city, on 22 February 2011 local time. The …

The Mw7. 8 2016 Kaikōura earthquake: Surface fault rupture and seismic hazard context

MW Stirling, NJ Litchfield, P Villamor… - Bulletin of the New …, 2017 - bulletin.nzsee.org.nz
We provide a summary of the surface fault ruptures produced by the Mw7. 8 14 November
2016 Kaikōura earthquake, including examples of damage to engineered structures …

Drilling reveals fluid control on architecture and rupture of the Alpine fault, New Zealand

R Sutherland, VG Toy, J Townend, SC Cox… - …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Rock damage during earthquake slip affects fluid migration within the fault core and the
surrounding damage zone, and consequently coseismic and postseismic strength evolution …

Lake sediments record high intensity shaking that provides insight into the location and rupture length of large earthquakes on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand

JD Howarth, SJ Fitzsimons, RJ Norris… - Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Understanding the seismic hazard posed by large earthquakes requires paleoseismic
investigation because most faults have not ruptured repeatedly during the period of historic …

[HTML][HTML] Incursion of meteoric waters into the ductile regime in an active orogen

CD Menzies, DAH Teagle, D Craw, SC Cox… - Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Rapid tectonic uplift on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand, elevates topography, regional
geothermal gradients, and the depth to the brittle ductile transition, and drives fluid flow that …

Fault rock lithologies and architecture of the central Alpine fault, New Zealand, revealed by DFDP-1 drilling

VG Toy, CJ Boulton, R Sutherland… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The first phase of the Deep Fault Drilling Project (DFDP-1) yielded a continuous lithological
transect through fault rock surrounding the Alpine fault (South Island, New Zealand). This …

Physical properties of surface outcrop cataclastic fault rocks, Alpine Fault, New Zealand

C Boulton, BM Carpenter, V Toy… - Geochemistry …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We present a unified analysis of physical properties of cataclastic fault rocks collected from
surface exposures of the central Alpine Fault at Gaunt Creek and Waikukupa River, New …