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Journal Article
How fast can low-angle normal faults slip? Insights from cosmogenic exposure dating of the active Mai’iu fault, Papua New Guinea
Journal: Geology
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 17 January 2018
Geology (2018) 46 (3): 227–230.
...S. Webber; K.P. Norton; T.A. Little; L.M. Wallace; S. Ellis Abstract Is there an upper limit to normal fault slip rates? The Mai’iu fault, located within the rapidly extending Woodlark Rift, Papua New Guinea, is one of few active continental low-angle normal faults (LANFs) globally...
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(A) Enlarged geologic map of part of the Mai’iu fault range front, showing ...
in Evolution of a rapidly slipping, active low-angle normal fault, Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex, SE Papua New Guinea
> GSA Bulletin
Published: 31 January 2019
Figure 10. (A) Enlarged geologic map of part of the Mai’iu fault range front, showing selected sample, pseudotachylyte, and late mafic dike localities. For location, see Figure 6A . (B) Lower-hemisphere stereogram plotting fault surface attitudes (great circles) and wear striae measured
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Interpretive tectonic evolution of the Mai’iu fault and Woodlark rift along...
in Evolution of a rapidly slipping, active low-angle normal fault, Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex, SE Papua New Guinea
> GSA Bulletin
Published: 31 January 2019
Figure 12. Interpretive tectonic evolution of the Mai’iu fault and Woodlark rift along cross-section line X-X′ (for location, see Fig. 2B ) using an Australian plate (southern side fixed) reference frame. Crustal structure is partly after Finlayson et al. (1977) , Fitz and Mann (2013) , Ott
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Simplified geologic setting for the Mai’iu fault, Papua New Guinea; a hills...
in How fast can low-angle normal faults slip? Insights from cosmogenic exposure dating of the active Mai’iu fault, Papua New Guinea
> Geology
Published: 17 January 2018
Figure 1. Simplified geologic setting for the Mai’iu fault, Papua New Guinea; a hillshade model (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, 30 m) is overlain by the simplified local geology (modified from Davies, 1980 ). Cross-sections A, B, and C illustrate the along-strike variability in geometry
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Evolution of a rapidly slipping, active low-angle normal fault, Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex, SE Papua New Guinea
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 31 January 2019
GSA Bulletin (2019) 131 (7-8): 1333–1363.
...Figure 10. (A) Enlarged geologic map of part of the Mai’iu fault range front, showing selected sample, pseudotachylyte, and late mafic dike localities. For location, see Figure 6A . (B) Lower-hemisphere stereogram plotting fault surface attitudes (great circles) and wear striae measured...
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Field photographs. The locations of all the images are labeled on Figure 3...
in Evolution of a rapidly slipping, active low-angle normal fault, Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex, SE Papua New Guinea
> GSA Bulletin
Published: 31 January 2019
Figure 5. Field photographs. The locations of all the images are labeled on Figure 3A . (A) Oblique aerial photograph, looking SE, showing scarp and dip slopes of the active Mai’iu fault. (B) Photograph, looking north, showing grass-covered dip slopes of the inactive Mai’iu fault, here dipping
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Structural evolution of the Dayman dome metamorphic core complex, eastern Papua New Guinea
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 01 November 2011
GSA Bulletin (2011) 123 (11-12): 2335–2351.
...Nathan R. Daczko; Peter Caffi; Paul Mann Abstract A shallow-dipping ductile mylonitic shear zone and concordant brittle detachment fault (Mai'iu fault) together make up the dominant geological structure that controls the orientation of dip slopes on the flanks of Mount Dayman, eastern Papuan...
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A: Sample 10 Be concentrations (black dots) plotted against fault-perpendi...
in How fast can low-angle normal faults slip? Insights from cosmogenic exposure dating of the active Mai’iu fault, Papua New Guinea
> Geology
Published: 17 January 2018
Figure 3. A: Sample 10 Be concentrations (black dots) plotted against fault-perpendicular distance from the Mai’iu fault trace, Papua New Guinea. Light gray dots represent outliers (see text). Samples are overlain by a swath of modeled 1σ terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide (TCN) profiles (gray area
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(A) Scatter plot of measured nonmylonitic and mylonitic foliation dip angle...
in Evolution of a rapidly slipping, active low-angle normal fault, Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex, SE Papua New Guinea
> GSA Bulletin
Published: 31 January 2019
Figure 8. (A) Scatter plot of measured nonmylonitic and mylonitic foliation dip angles on the Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex plotted against their horizontal distance from the Mai’iu fault trace in the NNE transport direction (the profile is 5 km east of section B-B′ in Fig. 6
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(A) Schematic profile across the Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex h...
in Evolution of a rapidly slipping, active low-angle normal fault, Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex, SE Papua New Guinea
> GSA Bulletin
Published: 31 January 2019
Figure 13. (A) Schematic profile across the Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex highlighting key observations and interpretations. (B) Profile Y-Y′ across Mai’iu fault showing projected microseismicity data from Abers et al. (2016) ; for location see our Figure 2B . Profile shows inferred
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Structural map and cross section of a central part of the Suckling-Dayman m...
in Evolution of a rapidly slipping, active low-angle normal fault, Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex, SE Papua New Guinea
> GSA Bulletin
Published: 31 January 2019
measured (and mean) attitudes of the active Mai’iu fault plane (as both great circles and poles); slip striae exposed on the exhumed fault plane near its trace; and poles to calcite gash veins in the subjacent mylonite zone. (D) Photograph, looking NW over the exhumed Mai’iu fault plane from the summit
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(A) Schematic section through fault rock sequence, based mostly on inactive...
in Evolution of a rapidly slipping, active low-angle normal fault, Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex, SE Papua New Guinea
> GSA Bulletin
Published: 31 January 2019
Figure 9. (A) Schematic section through fault rock sequence, based mostly on inactive Mai’iu fault outcrop at site PNG-14-19 (for location, see Fig. 11A ). PDS—principal displacement surface. (B–M) Optical photomicrographs of selected fault rocks. Their positions in the sequence are labeled
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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (source: U.S. Geological Survey) image vie...
in Structural evolution of the Dayman dome metamorphic core complex, eastern Papua New Guinea
> GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 November 2011
Figure 3. Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (source: U.S. Geological Survey) image view looking south of the Dayman dome. A dashed line marks the Mai'iu fault, part of the Owen-Stanley fault zone. GC—Gwoira Conglomerate. Sample sites discussed in text are labeled.
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Lower-hemisphere, equal-area stereograms of structural data in the footwall...
in Evolution of a rapidly slipping, active low-angle normal fault, Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex, SE Papua New Guinea
> GSA Bulletin
Published: 31 January 2019
in the nonmylonitic footwall (open or quartz-filled). (D) Mylonitic lineations (L m ) and poles to extension veins in the mylonite zone (open, calcite-filled, or quartz-filled). (E) Measured attitudes (in bedrock) of the inactive Mai’iu fault tilted along the western limb of the Gwoira depression, and of slip striae
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Representative examples of stream profiles exhibiting major knickpoints (st...
in Transient fluvial incision and active surface uplift in the Woodlark Rift of eastern Papua New Guinea
> Lithosphere
Published: 01 April 2012
in Figure 8 . Flat benches marked along Mai'iu River tributary are apparent terrace remnants identified with Landsat imagery and Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission digital elevation model. See Figure 3 for explanation of lithologic symbols. Fault locations are from various sources ( Bain et al., 1972
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Transient fluvial incision and active surface uplift in the Woodlark Rift of eastern Papua New Guinea
Journal: Lithosphere
Publisher: GSW
Published: 01 April 2012
Lithosphere (2012) 4 (2): 131–149.
... in Figure 8 . Flat benches marked along Mai'iu River tributary are apparent terrace remnants identified with Landsat imagery and Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission digital elevation model. See Figure 3 for explanation of lithologic symbols. Fault locations are from various sources ( Bain et al., 1972...
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Equivalent Near‐Field Corner Frequency Analysis of 3D Dynamic Rupture Simulations Reveals Dynamic Source Effects
Journal: Seismological Research Letters
Publisher: Seismological Society of America
Published: 07 December 2023
Seismological Research Letters (2024) 95 (2A): 900–924.
... for the modeling of near‐field accelerograms , Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 74 , no. 2 , 539 – 557 . Biemiller J. Gabriel A.‐A. , and Ulrich T. 2022 . The dynamics of unlikely slip: 3D modeling of low‐angle normal fault rupture at the Mai’iu fault, Papua New Guinea , Geochem. Geophys. Geosys...
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Progressive Miocene unroofing of the Big Maria and Riverside Mountains (southeastern California, USA) along the southwestern margin of the Colorado River extensional corridor
Journal: Geosphere
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 16 March 2023
Geosphere (2023) 19 (3): 676–694.
.... , and Gordon , K.C. , 2021 , The thermal-tectonic evolution of the actively exhuming Mai’iu Fault footwall—Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex—in the Woodlark Rift of Papua New Guinea : Tectonophysics , v. 811 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228856 . Prior , M.G. , Stockli , D.F...
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Structure, chronology, kinematics, and geodynamics of tectonic extension in the greater Catalina metamorphic core complex, southeastern Arizona, USA
Journal: Geosphere
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 16 September 2022
Geosphere (2022) 18 (6): 1643–1678.
...:24,000 . Österle , J.E. , Seward , D. , Stockli , D.F. , Little , T.A. , Rooney , J.S. , Gordon , S.M. , Smith , E. , and Gordon , K.C. , 2021 , The thermo-tectonic evolution of the actively exhuming Mai’iu Fault footwall–Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex...
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