A Continental Plate Boundary

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 175.<br /><i><br />A Continental Plate Boundary</i> 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 <ul> <li>Describing the geological and geophysical signature of a continental transform fault;</li> <li>Identifying the diverse vertical and lateral patterns of deformation at the plate boundary;</li> <li>Assessing an apparent seismicity gap on the plate boundary fault and fast-moving plate motions;</li> <li>Comparing this plate boundary to other global convergent continental strike-slip plate boundaries;</li> <li>Documenting the utility of the double-sided, onshore-offshore seismic method for exploration of a narrow continental island; and</li> <li>Providing additional papers presenting previously unpublished results.</li> </ul> <p>This volume will prove invaluable for seismologists, tectonophysicists, geodesists and potential-field geophysicists, geologists, geodynamicists, and students of the deformation of tectonic plates.</p>