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40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of epidote blueschists from the North D'Aguilar block, Queensland, Australia: Timing and kinematics of subduction complex unroofing

scientific article published in May 1995

A method to evaluate the degree of bleaching of IRSL signals in feldspar: The 3ET method

scientific article published in 2022

A model of active faulting in New Zealand

scholarly article

A revised paleoseismological record of late Holocene ruptures on the Kekerengu Fault following the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake

scientific article published on 20 April 2022

A sensitive vorticity gauge using rotated porphyroblasts, and its application to rocks adjacent to the Alpine Fault, New Zealand ⬇️

scholarly article

An episodic Cretaceous cooling model for the Otago‐Marlborough Schist, New Zealand, based on40Ar/39Ar white mica ages

article

Are quartz LPOs predictably oriented with respect to the shear zone boundary?: A test from the Alpine Fault mylonites, New Zealand

article

Bedrock geology of DFDP-2B, central Alpine Fault, New Zealand

article

Blueschists of the New England Orogen: Structural development of the Rocksberg Greenstone and associated units near Mt Mee, southeastern Queensland ⬇️

scholarly article

Can microplate rotation drive subduction inversion

scholarly article

Constraining provenance, thickness and erosion of nappes using low-temperature thermochronology: the Northland Allochthon, New Zealand

article

Constraints on Alpine Fault (New Zealand) mylonitization temperatures and the geothermal gradient from Ti-in-quartz thermobarometry

article

Continental crust subduction and exhumation: Insights from eastern Papua New Guinea

scholarly article

Continental rifting and metamorphic core complex formation ahead of the Woodlark spreading ridge, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea

scientific article published on 5 January 2007

Dating of young (<1 Ma) tephras: Using U‐Pb (zircon) and (U‐Th[‐Sm])/He (zircon, apatite, magnetite) chronometers to unravel the eruption age of a tephra in the Woodlark Rift of Papua New Guinea

scientific article published in 2020

Deformation of the Pacific Plate above the Alpine fault ramp and its relationship to expulsion of metamorphic fluids: An array of backshears

scientific article published in 2007

Diapiric exhumation of Earth's youngest (UHP) eclogites in the gneiss domes of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea

scientific article published in September 2011

Displacement transfer between intersecting regional strike-slip and extensional fault systems

scholarly article

Do great earthquakes occur on the Alpine Fault in central South Island, New Zealand?

article

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

article

Estimating co-seismic subsidence in the Hutt Valley resulting from rupture of the Wellington Fault, New Zealand

scientific article published on 30 September 2016

Evaluating 9 m of near-surface transpressional displacement during the M w 7.8 2016 Kaikōura earthquake: re-excavation of a pre-earthquake paleoseismic trench, Kekerengu Fault, New Zealand

scientific article published on 4 August 2021

Evaluating the coastal deformation mechanisms of the Raukumara Peninsula, northern Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand and insights into forearc uplift processes

article by K Clark et al published December 2010 in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Evolution of a rapidly slipping, active low-angle normal fault, Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex, SE Papua New Guinea

scientific article

Exhumation of late Paleozoic blueschists in Queensland, Australia, by extensional faulting

article

Extensional origin of ductile fabrics in the Schist Belt, Central Brooks Range, Alaska—I. Geologic and structural studies

scientific article published in July 1994

Extensional origin of ductile fabrics in the Schist Belt, Central Brooks Range, Alaska—II. Microstructural and petrofabric evidence

scientific article published in July 1994

Extensional shear band development on the outer margin of the Alpine mylonite zone, Tatare Stream, Southern Alps, New Zealand

article by Benjamin G. Gillam et al published September 2013 in Journal of Structural Geology

Extreme hydrothermal conditions at an active plate-bounding fault

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

Fabric development in cm-scale shear zones in ultramafic rocks, Red Hills, New Zealand

article

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

article

Feedback between rifting and diapirism can exhume ultrahigh-pressure rocks

scholarly article

Field-based constraints on finite strain and rheology of the lithospheric mantle, Twin Sisters, Washington

article by Basil Tikoff et al published December 2010 in Lithosphere

Five Thousand Years of Surface Ruptures on the Wellington Fault, New Zealand: Implications for Recurrence and Fault Segmentation

article

Geologic map of parts of the Anchorage C-4, C-5 and D-4 quadrangles, Alaska

scholarly article published 1986

Geology of the northern Chugach Mountains, southcentral Alaska

scholarly article

How fast can low-angle normal faults slip? Insights from cosmogenic exposure dating of the active Mai’iu fault, Papua New Guinea

scholarly article

Kekerengu Fault, New Zealand: Timing and Size of Late Holocene Surface Ruptures

article by T. A. Little et al published 2 January 2018 in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Kinematics and paleoseismology of the Vernon Fault, Marlborough Fault System, New Zealand: Implications for contractional fault bend deformation, earthquake triggering, and the record of Hikurangi subduction earthquakes

scientific article published on 30 June 2014

Kinematics of wrench and divergent-wrench deformation along a central part of the Border Ranges Fault System, Northern Chugach Mountains, Alaska

scientific article published in August 1990

Late Holocene surface ruptures on the southern Wairarapa fault, New Zealand: Link between earthquakes and the uplifting of beach ridges on a rocky coast

article

Mechanical Implications of Creep and Partial Coupling on the World's Fastest Slipping Low‐Angle Normal Fault in Southeastern Papua New Guinea

scientific article

Microstructures and quartz lattice-preferred orientations in the eclogite-bearing migmatitic gneisses of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea

scientific article published in June 2013

Mixed-mode Slip Behavior and Strength Evolution of an Actively Exhuming Low-Angle Normal Fault, Woodlark Rift, SE Papua New Guinea

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Multi-stage exhumation of young UHP–HP rocks: Timescales of melt crystallization in the D’Entrecasteaux Islands, southeastern Papua New Guinea

scientific article published in October 2012

Onshore to Offshore Ground‐Surface and Seabed Rupture of the Jordan–Kekerengu–Needles Fault Network during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake, New Zealand

scholarly article

Palaeoearthquake surface rupture in a transition zone from strike-slip to oblique-normal slip and its implications to seismic hazard, North Island Fault System, New Zealand

article

Paleomagnetic evidence for vertical-axis rotations of crustal blocks in the Woodlark Rift, SEPapua New Guinea: Miocene to present-day kinematics in one of the world's most rapidly extending plate boundary zones

scientific article published in July 2015

Preliminary geologic map of parts of the Anchorage C-2, C-3, D-2, and D-3 quadrangles, Alaska

scholarly article published 1983

Preliminary results of atomic absorption analyses of rock samples, upper Talkeetna River area, Alaska

scholarly article

Progressive back-warping of a rider block atop an actively exhuming, continental low-angle normal fault

scientific article

Rapid time scale of Earth’s youngest known ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic event, Papua New Guinea

scholarly article

Rates of active faulting during late Quaternary fluvial terrace formation at Saxton River, Awatere fault, New Zealand

article

Relationship between crustal finite strain and seismic anisotropy in the mantle, Pacific-Australia plate boundary zone, South Island, New Zealand

article

Reprint of Extensional shear band development on the outer margin of the Alpine mylonite zone, Tatare Stream, Southern Alps, New Zealand

article

Rheological constraints on quartz derived from scaling relationships and numerical models of sheared brittle-ductile quartz veins, central Southern Alps, New Zealand

article

Rotation of ductile fabrics across the Alpine Fault and Cenozoic bending of the New Zealand orocline

article

Slip Rate on the Wellington Fault, New Zealand, during the Late Quaternary: Evidence for Variable Slip during the Holocene

scholarly article

Slow-to-Fast Deformation in Mafic Fault Rocks on an Active Low-Angle Normal Fault, Woodlark Rift, SE Papua New Guinea

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Slow‐to‐Fast Deformation in Mafic Fault Rocks on an Active Low‐Angle Normal Fault, Woodlark Rift, SE Papua New Guinea

scientific article published in November 2020

Strength and Stress Evolution of an Actively Exhuming Low-Angle Normal Fault, Woodlark Rift, SE Papua New Guinea

scientific article published on 23 February 2021

Structural and Geomorphic Evidence for Rolling‐Hinge Style Deformation of an Active Continental Low‐Angle Normal Fault, SE Papua New Guinea

scientific article published on 6 May 2019

Structure and metamorphism of upper Paleozoic rocks in the Mountain City Quadrangle, Elko County, Nevada ⬇️

1983 thesis (M.S.) submitted to Stanford University by Timothy Little

Structure and topology of a brittle-ductile fault swarm at Crawford Knob, Franz Josef, New Zealand

scientific article published in 2023

Surface Rupture of Multiple Crustal Faults in the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura, New Zealand, Earthquake

article

Tectonic Inheritance Following Failed Continental Subduction: A Model for Core Complex Formation in Cold, Strong Lithosphere

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Terminations of large strike-slip faults: an alternative model from New Zealand

scholarly article

Textural changes of graphitic carbon by tectonic and hydrothermal processes in an active plate boundary fault zone, Alpine Fault, New Zealand

article by Martina Kirilova et al published 15 November 2017 in Geological Society Special Publication

The New Zealand Community Fault Model – version 1.0: an improved geological foundation for seismic hazard modelling

scientific article published on 19 March 2023

The link between strength of lattice preferred orientation, second phase content and grain boundary migration: A case study from the Alpine Fault zone, New Zealand

article

The petrology, geochronology and tectono-magmatic setting of igneous rocks in the Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex, Papua New Guinea

scientific article published in 2020

The thermo-tectonic evolution of the actively exhuming Mai'iu Fault footwall – Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex – in the Woodlark Rift of Papua New Guinea

scholarly article

Thermal history and exhumation of basement rocks from Mesozoic to Cenozoic subduction cycles, central North Island, New Zealand

scientific article

Timing of UHP exhumation and rock fabric development in gneiss domes containing the world's youngest eclogite Facies rocks, southeastern Papua New Guinea

scientific article published on 30 September 2014

Tracking the exhumation of a Pliocene (U)HP terrane: U-Pb and trace-element constraints from zircon, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea

scientific article published in October 2014

Using eclogite retrogression to track the rapid exhumation of the Pliocene Papua New Guinea UHP Terrane

scholarly article

Variations in exhumation level and uplift rate along the obliqu-slip Alpine fault, central Southern Alps, New Zealand

article

World's largest coseismic strike-slip offset: The 1855 rupture of the Wairarapa Fault, New Zealand, and implications for displacement/length scaling of continental earthquakes

article

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