Continental transforms: A view from the Alpine Fault

RJ Norris, VG Toy - Journal of Structural Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Continental transform faults are dominantly highly localized strike-slip shear zones
hundreds of kilometers long that accumulate tens to hundreds of kilometers of displacement …

Past large earthquakes on the Alpine Fault: paleoseismological progress and future directions

JD Howarth, UA Cochran, RM Langridge… - New Zealand Journal …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Paleoseismology has been making an important contribution to understanding the Alpine
Fault and the hazard it poses to society. However, evidence of past earthquakes comes from …

Spatiotemporal clustering of great earthquakes on a transform fault controlled by geometry

JD Howarth, NC Barth, SJ Fitzsimons… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Minor changes in geometry along the length of mature strike-slip faults may act as
conditional barriers to earthquake rupture, terminating some and allowing others to pass …

Islands of chaos in a sea of periodic earthquakes

J Gauriau, S Barbot, JF Dolan - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Long paleoseismic records on mature faults suggest potentially chaotic recurrence patterns
with cycles of strain accumulation and release that challenge simple slip-or time-predictable …

'You are HERE': Connecting the dots with airborne lidar for geomorphic fieldwork

JJ Roering, BH Mackey, JA Marshall, KE Sweeney… - Geomorphology, 2013 - Elsevier
The emergence of airborne lidar data for studying landscape evolution and natural hazards
has revolutionized our ability to document the topographic signature of active and ancient …

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

R Sutherland, VG Toy, J Townend, SC Cox… - …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Rock damage during earthquake slip affects fluid migration within the fault core and the
surrounding damage zone, and consequently coseismic and postseismic strength evolution …

Lake sediments record high intensity shaking that provides insight into the location and rupture length of large earthquakes on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand

JD Howarth, SJ Fitzsimons, RJ Norris… - Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Understanding the seismic hazard posed by large earthquakes requires paleoseismic
investigation because most faults have not ruptured repeatedly during the period of historic …

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

VG Toy, CJ Boulton, R Sutherland… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The first phase of the Deep Fault Drilling Project (DFDP-1) yielded a continuous lithological
transect through fault rock surrounding the Alpine fault (South Island, New Zealand). This …

A plate boundary earthquake record from a wetland adjacent to the Alpine fault in New Zealand refines hazard estimates

UA Cochran, KJ Clark, JD Howarth, GP Biasi… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Discovery and investigation of millennial-scale geological records of past large earthquakes
improve understanding of earthquake frequency, recurrence behaviour, and likelihood of …

Slip localization on the southern Alpine fault, New Zealand

NC Barth, C Boulton, BM Carpenter, GE Batt… - Tectonics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Results of a detailed field study of the southern onshore portion of New Zealand's Alpine
Fault reveal that for 75 km along‐strike, dextral‐normal slip on this long‐lived structure is …