Structural styles and sedimentation at the southern termination of the Hikurangi subduction zone, offshore North Canterbury, New Zealand

• Main Author: Barnes, Philip M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Canterbury. Geology 1993
• Subjects: Antarctic; Pacific; New Zealand; Tilting; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26021/9065; https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/4702

In the northern region of South Island, New Zealand, a major tectonic transition occurs in the obliquely convergent Australia-Pacific plate boundary. The southern end of the Hikurangi subduction zone terminates against the Chatham Rise, a submerged continental plateau on the Pacific Plate, which is...