{"product_id":"a-continental-plate-boundary-isbn-9780875904405","title":"A Continental Plate Boundary","description":"Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 175.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Continental Plate Boundary\u003c\/i\u003e offers in one place the most comprehensive, up-to-date knowledge for researchers and students to learn about the tectonics and plate dynamics of the Pacific-Australian continental plate boundary in South Island and about the application of modern geological and geophysical methods. It examines what happens when convergence and translation occur at a plate boundary by \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDescribing the geological and geophysical signature of a continental transform fault;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIdentifying the diverse vertical and lateral patterns of deformation at the plate boundary;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAssessing an apparent seismicity gap on the plate boundary fault and fast-moving plate motions;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eComparing this plate boundary to other global convergent continental strike-slip plate boundaries;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDocumenting the utility of the double-sided, onshore-offshore seismic method for exploration of a narrow continental island; and\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProviding additional papers presenting previously unpublished results.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume will prove invaluable for seismologists, tectonophysicists, geodesists and potential-field geophysicists, geologists, geodynamicists, and students of the deformation of tectonic plates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface vii\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Okaya, Tim Stern, and Fred Davey \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContinent-Continent Collision at the Pacific\/Indo-Australian Plate Boundary: Background, Motivation, and Principal Results 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Okaya, Tim Stern, Fred Davey, Stuart Henrys, and Simon Cox \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSECTION I: Regional Framework of Pacific\/Indo-Australian Plate Boundary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegional Geological Framework of South Island, New Zealand, and its Significance for Understanding the Active Plate Boundary 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon C. Cox and Rupert Sutherland \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeophysical Structure of the Southern Alps Orogen, South Island, New Zealand 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eF.J. Davey, D. Eberhart-Phillips, M.D. Kohler, S. Bannister, G. Caldwell, S. Henrys, M. Scherwath, T. Stern, and H. van Avendonk \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKinematic Constraints From GPS on Oblique Convergence of the Pacific and Australian Plates, Central South Island, New Zealand 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Beavan, Susan Ellis, Laura Wallace, and Paul Denys \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeismic Anisotropy in South Island, New Zealand 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartha Kane Savage, Mathieu Duclos, Katrina Marson-Pidgeon \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrustal Thickness and Pn Anisotropy Beneath the Southern Alps Oblique Collision, New Zealand 117\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eS. Bourguignon, M. K. Savage and T. Stern \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCompressional and Shear Wave Velocities in South Island New Zealand Rocks and Their Application to the Interpretation of Seismological Models of the New Zealand Crust 125\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNikolas I. Christensen and David A. Okaya \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSECTION II: The Plate Boundary (Alpine Fault) \u0026amp; Associated Mountain Building\u003c\/b\u003e (Southern Alps)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Surface Geology and Field Relationships 159\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard J. Norris and Alan F. Cooper \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeformation of the Pacific Plate Above the Alpine Fault Ramp and its Relationship to Expulsion of Metamorphic Fluids: An Array of Backshears 179\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRuth H. Wightman and Timothy A. Little \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeophysical Exploration and Dynamics of the Alpine Fault Zone 209\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTim Stern, David Okaya, Stefan Kleffmann, Martin Scherwath, Stuart Henrys, and Fred Davey \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDo Great Earthquakes Occur on the Alpine Fault in Central South Island, New Zealand? 237\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eR. Sutherland, D. Eberhart-Phillips, R.A. Harris, T. Stern, J. Beavan, S. Ellis, S. Henrys, S. Cox, R.J.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorris, K.R. Berryman, J. Townend, S. Bannister, J. Pettinga, B. Leitner, L. Wallace, T.A. Little, A.F.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCooper, M. Yetton, and M. Stirling \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSECTION III: Plate Boundary Dynamics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThree-Dimensional Geodynamic Framework for the Central Southern Alps, New Zealand: Integrating Geology, Geophysics and Mechanical Observations 255\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhaedra Upton and Peter O. Koons \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranspression Models and Ductile Deformation of the Lower Crust of the Pacific Plate in the Central Southern Alps, a Perspective From Structural Geology 273\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimothy Little, Ruth Wightman, Rodney J. Holcombe, and Matthew Hill \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModeling Strain and Anisotropy Along the Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand 291\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eM. K. Savage, A. Tommasi, S. Ellis, and J. Chery \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSECTION IV: Comparisons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Comparison Between the Transpressional Plate Boundaries of South Island, New Zealand,\u003cbr\u003eand Southern California, USA: The Alpine and San Andreas Fault Systems 309\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGary S. Fuis, Monica D. Kohler, Martin Scherwath, Uri ten Brink, Harm J.A. Van Avendonk,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand Janice M. Murphy \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaiwan and South Island, New Zealand—A Comparison of Continental Collisional Orogenies 331\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eF. Wu, F. Davey, and D. Okaya \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeismogenic, Electrically Conductive, and Fluid Zones at Continental Plate Boundaries in New Zealand, Himalaya, and California, USA 349\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge R. Jiracek, Victor M. Gonzalez, T. Grant Caldwell, Philip E. 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