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Evolution and progressive geomorphic manifestation of surface faulting: A comparison of the Wairau and Awatere faults, South Island, New Zealand Available to Purchase
Robert Zinke, James F. Dolan, Russell Van Dissen, Jessica R. Grenader, Edward J. Rhodes, Christopher P. McGuire, Robert M. Langridge, Andy Nicol, Alexandra E. Hatem
Journal: Geology
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 01 November 2015
Geology (2015) 43 (11): 1019–1022.
... at the well-known Branch River and Saxton River sites along the Wairau (Alpine) and Awatere strike-slip faults, South Island, New Zealand, reveal that fault-related deformation patterns expressed in the topography at these sites are markedly less structurally complex along the higher-displacement (hundreds...
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Distributed deformation in the lower crust and upper mantle beneath a continental strike-slip fault zone: Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand Available to Purchase
Journal: Geology
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 01 October 2004
Geology (2004) 32 (10): 837–840.
... anisotropic lower crust beneath the two northernmost faults of the fault system. These observations suggest that distributed deformation, not slip on a narrow vertical fault, accommodates displacement in the lower crust below the 120–480 km of right-lateral slip across the Wairau fault, one splay...
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Figure 2. Shaded topographic map of northern end of South Island of New Zea... Available to Purchase
in Distributed deformation in the lower crust and upper mantle beneath a continental strike-slip fault zone: Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand
> Geology
Published: 01 October 2004
arrays. Assuming that structure varies perpendicular to strike of Wairau fault, receiver function amplitudes within shaded area were projected onto heavy line. Displacement of Junction magnetic anomaly (purple line, inset) indicates total offset across Alpine fault, most of which was absorbed
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Hope fault, Jordan thrust, and uplift of the Seaward Kaikoura Range, New Zealand Available to Purchase
Journal: Geology
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 01 April 1991
Geology (1991) 19 (4): 393–396.
... restraining bend of the Alpine fault has the same average slip rate as the Wairau fault, 4-6 mm/yr. Even though the Alpine fault is an east-dipping, reverse-separation fault at the restraining bend, this low slip rate results in uplift of the Spenser Mountains east of the bend at a rate lower than...
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Evolution and progressive geomorphic manifestation of surface faulting: A comparison of the Wairau and Awatere faults, South Island, New Zealand: COMMENT Open Access
Journal: Geology
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 01 July 2016
Geology (2016) 44 (7): e391.
...Mark Quigley; Jarg Pettinga © 2016 Geological Society of America 2016 Forum Comment doi:10.1130/G37905C.1 Evolution and progressive geomorphic manifestation of surface faulting: A comparison of the Wairau and Awatere faults, South Island, New Zealand Mark Quigley1 and Jarg Pettinga2...
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Figure 4. Plots showing magnitude as function of depth of 1ϕ and 2ϕ back-az... Available to Purchase
in Distributed deformation in the lower crust and upper mantle beneath a continental strike-slip fault zone: Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand
> Geology
Published: 01 October 2004
Figure 4. Plots showing magnitude as function of depth of 1ϕ and 2ϕ back-azimuth variations for radial and transverse components from receiver functions to north (A and C) and south (B and D) of Wairau fault. Thinner lines represent 2σ error bounds estimated through bootstrap resampling. Note
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Lidar hillshade images of the two study sites in New Zealand. A: Branch Riv... Available to Purchase
in Evolution and progressive geomorphic manifestation of surface faulting: A comparison of the Wairau and Awatere faults, South Island, New Zealand
> Geology
Published: 01 November 2015
Figure 2. Lidar hillshade images of the two study sites in New Zealand. A: Branch River site on Wairau fault. B: Saxton River site on Awatere fault. Fault traces (including secondary fault strands) shown in red. Terraces are demarked by colors and labeled according to previous studies ( Lensen
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Slip‐rate sites in the NZ PSDB v.1.0, color coded by the overall quality ra... Available to Purchase
Published: 25 September 2023
fault; Mf, Mohaka fault; Of, Ostler fault; Wf, Wairau fault. The largest cities and others mentioned in the V1.0 Overview and Further Insights into Completeness section are labeled. The color version of this figure is available only in the electronic edition.
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Evolution and progressive geomorphic manifestation of surface faulting: A comparison of the Wairau and Awatere faults, South Island, New Zealand: REPLY Open Access
R. Zinke, J.F. Dolan, R. Van Dissen, J.R. Grenader, E.J. Rhodes, C.P. McGuire, R.M. Langridge, A. Nicol, A.E. Hatem
Journal: Geology
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 01 August 2016
Geology (2016) 44 (8): e392–e393.
...R. Zinke; J.F. Dolan; R. Van Dissen; J.R. Grenader; E.J. Rhodes; C.P. McGuire; R.M. Langridge; A. Nicol; A.E. Hatem © 2016 Geological Society of America 2016 Forum Reply doi:10.1130/G38188Y.1 Evolution and progressive geomorphic manifestation of surface faulting: A comparison of the Wairau...
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Tectonic map of Marlborough fault system (MFS; modified from Langridge et... Available to Purchase
in Kekerengu Fault, New Zealand: Timing and Size of Late Holocene Surface Ruptures
> Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Published: 02 January 2018
and Villamor (2004) ; for the Clarence fault, from Van Dissen and Nicol (2009) ; for the Awatere fault, from Mason et al. (2006) ; for the Wairau fault, from Zachariasen et al. (2006) ; and for the Alpine fault, from Howarth et al. (2014) .The color version of this figure is available only
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Simplified geological map, after Begg & Johnston (2000) , of part of t... Available to Purchase
in Rotation of ductile fabrics across the Alpine Fault and Cenozoic bending of the New Zealand orocline
> Journal of the Geological Society
Published: 01 September 2001
Fig. 7 Simplified geological map, after Begg & Johnston (2000) , of part of the Marlborough Schist, New Zealand. See Figure 1 for location. Inset north of Alpine–Wairau fault is simplified from Little et al. (1999) . Inset near Picton Harbour is simplified from Nicol & Campbell
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Generalized tectonic map of the South Island New Zealand region. The southe... Available to Purchase
in Modeling Stress Changes Induced by Earthquakes in the Southern Marlborough Region, South Island, New Zealand
> Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Published: 01 December 2002
( Doser et al. , 1999 ). The entire Alpine fault between the southwestern coast of the South Island and the Awatere fault (bold line) is believed to have ruptured in A.D. 1717 ( Yetton et al. , 1998 ). AF, Awatere fault; HF, Hope fault; WF, Wairau fault. The box indicates the location of Figure 2 .
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Inset: Marlborough fault system (MFS) on South Island, New Zealand, transfe... Available to Purchase
in Evolution and progressive geomorphic manifestation of surface faulting: A comparison of the Wairau and Awatere faults, South Island, New Zealand
> Geology
Published: 01 November 2015
Figure 1. Inset: Marlborough fault system (MFS) on South Island, New Zealand, transfers relative Pacific-Australian plate motion between dextral-oblique–slip Alpine fault (Alp F) and Hikurangi subduction margin (Hik). Wairau fault has accommodated much of the ∼460 km of right-lateral shear along
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(A) Active and inactive faults with outcrop expression in the central New Z... Available to Purchase
in Reconstructing a dismembered Neogene basin along the active Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand
> GSA Bulletin
Published: 17 August 2022
Figure 2. (A) Active and inactive faults with outcrop expression in the central New Zealand region. (B) Important, block-bounding structures identified and used in this study. 1—Alpine Fault; 2—Wairau Fault; 3—Awatere Fault; 4—Clarence Fault; 5—Kekerengu Fault; 6—Jordan Thrust; 7—Elliot Fault; 8
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Development of an intracontinental plate boundary transfer zone, Marlborough, Aotearoa New Zealand: A review and synthesis Available to Purchase
Phaedra Upton, Andy J. Tulloch, James S. Crampton, Alison R. Duvall, Donna Eberhart-Phillips, Susan M. Ellis, Matthew W. Sagar, Robert M. Langridge, Dougal B. Townsend, Sarah A. Harbert
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 07 March 2025
GSA Bulletin (2025)
... is bounded to the northwest by the Alpine Fault and the Wairau Fault (Fig. 1A). As discussed in the following section, the extent of the transfer zone (sensu strictu, in terms of an actively deforming plate boundary region) has varied over the last 10 m.y. Plate boundary transfer zones, such as those...
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Evolution and progressive geomorphic manifestation of surface faulting: A comparison of the Wairau and Awatere faults, South Island, New Zealand: COMMENT Open Access
Journal: Geology
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 01 July 2016
Geology (2016) 44 (7): e390.
...Brendan Duffy © 2016 Geological Society of America 2016 Forum Comment doi:10.1130/ G37549Y.1 Evolution and progressive geomorphic manifestation of surface faulting: A comparison of the Wairau and Awatere faults, South Island, New Zealand Brendan Duffy School of Earth Sciences...
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Compilation of paleoseismic events ages from the northern Marlborough–Welli... Available to Purchase
in Evidence for Past Subduction Earthquakes at a Plate Boundary with Widespread Upper Plate Faulting: Southern Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand
> Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Published: 19 May 2015
and marine terraces). Seismic event ages were obtained from the following sources: Vernon fault ( Pondard and Barnes, 2010 ); Wairau fault ( Barnes and Pondard, 2010 ; Nicol et al. , 2011 ); Awatere fault ( Mason et al. , 2006 ); Cloudy fault ( Pondard and Barnes, 2010 ); Wairarapa fault ( Little et al
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Geological and biological evidence for regional drainage reversal during lateral tectonic transport, Marlborough, New Zealand Available to Purchase
Journal: Journal of the Geological Society
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 01 July 2007
Journal of the Geological Society (2007) 164 (4): 785–793.
... is underlain by Palaeozoic and Mesozoic basement that is dominated by metasedimentary rocks that make up most of the South Island of New Zealand ( Fig. 1 ). These are crossed by a major active transcurrent fault, the Wairau Fault ( Fig. 1 ), which is one of the main strands of the Alpine Fault that separates...
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Calculation of exponential decay rates ( b values) from offset measurement... Available to Purchase
Published: 04 November 2022
Figure 2. Calculation of exponential decay rates ( b values) from offset measurements. (A–C) Example offset data from the (A) Wairau, South Island, New Zealand; (B) San Andreas, California, USA; and (C) San Jacinto, California, faults that span a range of b values (the distribution of small
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Geomorphological Influences on the Distribution of Liquefaction in the Wairau Plains, New Zealand, Following the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake Available to Purchase
Sarah H. Bastin, Matt Ogden, Liam M. Wotherspoon, Sjoerd van Ballegooy, Russell A. Green, Mark Stringer
Publisher: Seismological Society of America
Published: 08 May 2018
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2018) 108 (3B): 1683–1694.
... is also indicated. The Wairau Plains are situated in the northeastern corner of the South Island of New Zealand (Fig. 1 ). The plains are bounded by northeast‐trending mountain ranges reflecting uplift along the Wairau and Awatere faults. The faults comprise part of the Marlborough fault zone...
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