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- TITLE_SECTIONTitle Section
- CHAPTERThe Alpine Fault*
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 1.—Various interpretations of the major faults of the South Island.
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 2.—Sketch map showing the Alpine Fault and pre-Cretaceous rocks of the South Island, reproduced from Wellman (19...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 3.—Superficial overthrusting at the Alpine Fault. Above: Diagrammatic representation by Wellman (1955). Below: S...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 4.—The Alpine Fault in central Westland, showing irregularity of outcrop resulting from superficial overthrustin...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 5.—The Alpine Fault and the Marlborough—East Coast faults, showing inferred extension of the Alpine Fault throug...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 6.—Geology adjacent to the Alpine Fault between the Clear Grey and Matakitaki rivers (late Pleistocene deposits ...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 7.—Alternative paleogeographic developments of the New Zealand region from late Triassic to the end of the Creta...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 8. Diagrammatic cross-sections through central South Island showing structural development during the Kaikoura O...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 9.—Quaternary (Kaikoura Orogeny) uplift of garnet-oligoclase zone schist at the Alpine Fault. The distance betwe...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 10.—Active faults of New Zealand, compiled by G. J. Lensen, New Zealand Geological Survey. All the fault displac...