Deep Fault Drilling Project—Alpine Fault, New Zealand

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Deep Fault Drilling Project—Alpine Fault, New Zealand

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The Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand, constitutes a globally significant natural laboratory for research into how active plate-bounding continental faults work and, in particular, how rocks exposed at the surface today relate to deep-seated processes of tectonic deformation, seismogenesis, and mineralization. The along-strike homogeneity of the hanging wall, rapid rate of dextral-reverse slip on an inclined fault plane, and relatively shallow depths to mechanical and chemical transitio...

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2009-09-01

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Rupert Sutherland / John Townend / Virginia Toy

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http://www.iodp.org/images/stories/downloads/sd8_09.pdf#page=75

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Alpine Falut / NZ / Geology

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