Slow slip source characterized by lithological and geometric heterogeneity

PM Barnes, LM Wallace, DM Saffer, RE Bell… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Slow slip events (SSEs) accommodate a significant proportion of tectonic plate motion at
subduction zones, yet little is known about the faults that actually host them. The shallow …

Palaeogeographic evolution of Zealandia: mid-Cretaceous to present

DP Strogen, H Seebeck, BR Hines… - New Zealand Journal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We present a suite of 15 palaeogeographic maps illustrating the geological evolution of the
entirety of Zealandia, from mid-Cretaceous to present, highlighting major tectonic phases …

Recoding of stop codons expands the metabolic potential of two novel Asgardarchaeota lineages

J Sun, PN Evans, EJ Gagen, BJ Woodcroft… - ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Asgardarchaeota have been proposed as the closest living relatives to eukaryotes, and a
total of 72 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) representing six primary lineages in …

Fluid pressurisation and earthquake propagation in the Hikurangi subduction zone

S Aretusini, F Meneghini, E Spagnuolo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In subduction zones, seismic slip at shallow crustal depths can lead to the generation of
tsunamis. Large slip displacements during tsunamogenic earthquakes are attributed to the …

Fluid-rich subducting topography generates anomalous forearc porosity

C Chesley, S Naif, K Key, D Bassett - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The role of subducting topography on the mode of fault slip—particularly whether it hinders
or facilitates large megathrust earthquakes—remains a controversial topic in subduction …

Frictional and lithological controls on shallow slow slip at the northern Hikurangi margin

S Shreedharan, M Ikari, C Wood… - Geochemistry …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Slow slip events (SSEs) have been identified at subduction zones globally as an important
link in the continuum between elastodynamic ruptures and stable creep. The northern …

[HTML][HTML] Mixed deformation styles observed on a shallow subduction thrust, Hikurangi margin, New Zealand

Å Fagereng, HM Savage, JK Morgan, M Wang… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Geophysical observations show spatial and temporal variations in fault slip style on shallow
subduction thrust faults, but geological signatures and underlying deformation processes …

Biostratigraphically constrained chronologies for Quaternary sequences from the Hikurangi margin of north-eastern Zealandia

MP Crundwell, A Woodhouse - New Zealand Journal of Geology …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
New biostratigraphically constrained chronologies have been developed to help elucidate
the sedimentary and tectonic history of Quaternary sequences on the Hikurangi margin of …

Fault surface morphology as an indicator for earthquake nucleation potential

AM Eijsink, JD Kirkpatrick, F Renard, MJ Ikari - Geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Laboratory measurements can determine the potential for geologic materials to generate
unstable (seismic) slip, but a direct relation between sliding behavior in the laboratory and …

Heterogeneous subgreenschist deformation in an exhumed sediment‐poor mélange

H Leah, Å Fagereng, N Groome… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Many described subduction complexes (or mélanges) exhumed from seismogenic depths
comprise thick, turbidite‐dominated sequences with deformed zones containing clasts or …