The Alpine Fault is a geological fault that runs almost the entire length of New Zealand's South Island, being about 600 km (370 mi). long, and forms the...

A transform fault or transform boundary, is a fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal. It ends abruptly where it connects...

than Mw7 in magnitude. These are parallel to, and to the east of the Alpine Fault in the south eastern part of the South Island of New Zealand. It accommodates...

Island is divided in two by the Alpine Fault, which runs through the Region in a North-East direction. To the West of the fault Paleozoic basement rocks are...

earthquakes on the Alpine Fault and other nearby faults. Despite the substantial uplift, most of the relative motion along the Alpine Fault is transverse,...

as the Dead Sea Transform in the Middle East or the Alpine Fault in New Zealand. Transform faults are also referred to as "conservative" plate boundaries...

Alpine climate, climate that is typical to higher altitudes Alpine tundra, a type of natural region or biome Alpine orogeny, in geology Alpine Fault,...

Cambridge University Press, p. 23, ISBN 978-0521190855 "GNS Science, Alpine Fault". Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd. Bendick, R.; Bilham...

Escarpment New Zealand The western slope of the Southern Alps (along the Alpine Fault) The Kaimai escarpment, above the Hauraki Plains The Paekākāriki escarpment...

The resulting displacement by approximately 500 km (310 mi) along the Alpine Fault is evident in geological maps. Movement along this plate boundary also...

on plate tectonics. He is notable for his discovery of South Island's Alpine Fault. Wellman became a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1954...

transfer displacement between the mainly transform plate boundary of the Alpine fault and the mainly destructive boundary of the Kermadec Trench, and together...

of New Zealand but the direction of subduction reverses south of the Alpine Fault where the Australian Plate starts subducting under the Pacific Plate...

Alpine Fault goes through the lake. Researchers from GNS Science and University of Nevada, Reno have studied sediments from the 24 last Alpine Fault earthquakes...

Environment Canterbury). To the west of the Southern Alps lies the Alpine Fault, a major fault boundary, that passes through the South Island from Fiordland...

Erhai or Er Lake (Chinese: 洱海; pinyin: Ěrhǎi), is an alpine fault lake in Dali City, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan province, China. Erhai was also known as Yeyuze...

marked by the Alpine Fault. South of New Zealand the boundary becomes a transitional transform-convergent boundary, the Macquarie Fault Zone, where the...

The junction between the Hope fault and the Alpine Fault is complex. The Kelly Fault forms a major splay of the Hope Fault from just west of Harper Pass;...

The plate boundary forms the nearly 800 kilometres (500 mi) long Alpine Fault. This fault has an estimated rupture reoccurrence interval of ~330 years, and...

The resulting displacement by approximately 500 km (310 mi) along the Alpine Fault is evident in geological maps. Movement along this plate boundary also...

over geological time: Geological processes: migration of tectonic plates, faulting and folding, mountain formation, volcanic eruptions, etc. Erosional processes:...

The North Island Fault System (NIFS) (also known as North Island Dextral Fault Belt or North Island Shear Belt) is a set of southwest–northeast trending...

Resolution Ridge off the south western tip of New Zealand's Fiordland and the Alpine Fault continues north as the plate boundary. The southern part of the trench...

transform Alpine Fault to the Hikurangi Trough subduction zone. The Clarence Fault extends from about 5 km south of Haupiri, close to the Alpine Fault to about...

and Marlborough, and Torlesse rocks just to the East of the Alpine Fault). The Alpine Fault that corresponds to the line of the Southern Alps has separated...

Zone Gobi Altai (Mongolia) "Big Bend" of the San Andreas Fault Zone, (California, USA) Alpine Fault in New Zealand Galeh–Doz pluton (Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone...

of New Zealand forming the Tonga Trench and the Kermadec Trench. The Alpine Fault marks a transform boundary between the two plates, and further south...

Transform, the North Anatolian Fault and the Alpine Fault. Major lateral offsets between large extensional or thrust faults are normally connected by diffuse...

fault zones and earthquakes in New Zealand, Japan and Ecuador. She is one of the leaders of the Deep Fault Drilling Project of New Zealand's Alpine Fault...

trapezoidal shape dominated by oblique splay faults, steeply-dipping recumbent nappes and fault-bend folds. The Alpine Schist of New Zealand is characterised...