Davey, Fred
A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand
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 by
- Describing the geological and geophysical signature of a continental transform fault;
- Identifying the diverse vertical and lateral patterns of deformation at the plate boundary;
- Assessing an apparent seismicity gap on the plate boundary fault and fast-moving plate motions;
- Comparing this plate boundary to other global convergent continental strike-slip plate boundaries;
- Documenting the utility of the double-sided, onshore-offshore seismic method for exploration of a narrow continental island; and
- Providing additional papers presenting previously unpublished results.
This volume will prove invaluable for seismologists, tectonophysicists, geodesists and potential-field geophysicists, geologists, geodynamicists, and students of the deformation of tectonic plates.
Keywords: collision; continentcontinent; pacific; davey; indoaustralian; okaya; simon; framework; section; regional; cox; plate; geological; south; active; boundary; sutherland; southern; orogen; alps, Geology & Geophysics, Geology & Geophysics
- Editor
- Davey, Fred
- Okaya, David
- Stern, Tim
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2007
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Geophysical Monograph Series
- Page amount
- 369 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118671771
- Printed ISBN
- 9780875904405