Frontal fault location and most recent earthquake timing for the Alpine Fault at Whataroa, Westland, New Zealand
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Rupert Sutherland; Jamie Howarth; Robert Langridge; Simon C. Cox; Jonathan G. Palmer
- Source
- New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 61:329-340
- Subject
- Light nucleus
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
High resolution
Geology
Fault (geology)
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
01 natural sciences
Tectonics
Plate tectonics
Geophysics
Sinistral and dextral
Age estimation
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Alluvium
Seismology
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
- Language
- ISSN
- 1175-8791
0028-8306
Active traces of the reverse dextral Alpine Fault were poorly located on the true left (southwest) side of the Whataroa River. Mapping using airborne LiDAR-derived high resolution topographic data ...