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The Wellington Fault is an active seismic fault in the southern part of the North Island of New Zealand. It is a dextral (right-lateral) strike-slip fault with variable amounts of vertical movement causing uplift to the northwest, as expressed by a series of ranges.
The North Island Fault System (NIFS) (also known as North Island Dextral Fault Belt or North Island Shear Belt [1]) is a set of southwest–northeast trending seismically-active faults in the North Island of New Zealand that carry much of the dextral (right lateral) strike-slip component of the oblique convergence of the Pacific Plate with the Australian Plate.
The Geological Survey of New Zealand now known as GNS Science has done extensive mapping through New Zealand at 1:250,000 and 1:50:000 scales. The most modern map series are the "QMAPs" at 1:250,000. [47] New Zealand's geological research is published by GNS Science, in the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, and internationally.
The Otago fault system (also known as Otago reverse fault province) contains multiple faults with the potential to have rupture events greater than M w 7 in magnitude. [2] [3] 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 about 2 mm (0.079 in)/year of ...
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). [a] long, and forms the boundary between the Pacific plate and the Australian plate. [4] The Southern Alps have been uplifted on the fault over the last 12 million years in a series of earthquakes.
Major active fault zones of New Zealand showing variation in displacement vector of Pacific plate relative to Australian plate along the boundary. The Marlborough fault system (also known as Marlborough tectonic domain [2]) is a set of four large dextral strike-slip faults and other related structures in the northern part of the South Island, New Zealand, which transfer displacement between ...
Map of faults and Quaternary volcanoes in Auckland region. To show well the volcanoes in relation to fault lines, you have to click on the map to enlarge and then zoom and pan. This also enables mouse over of the volcano and fault names. Definite active faults are shown in red.
Reading the rocks : a guide to geological features of the Wairarapa Coast - Homer, Lloyd; Moore, Phil & Kermode, Les; Landscape Publications and the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, 1989. ISBN 0-908800-00-2. On shaky ground : a geological guide to the Wellington metropolitan region, Graeme Stevens, Geological Society of New Zealand.