Deep Fault Drilling Project—Alpine Fault, New Zealand

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, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rupert Sutherland, John Townend, Virginia Toy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2009-09-01
Series:Scientific Drilling
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NZ
Online Access:http://www.iodp.org/images/stories/downloads/sd8_09.pdf#page=75