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A Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic reconstruction of the Southwest Pacific region: Tectonics controlled by subduction and slab rollback processes by Schellart, W.P., Lister, G.S., Toy, V.G.

“…A Cenozoic tectonic reconstruction is presented for the Southwest Pacific region located east of Australia. The reconstruction is constrained by large…”
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Hydraulic and acoustic properties of the active Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Laboratory measurements on DFDP-1 drill core by Carpenter, B.M., Kitajima, H., Sutherland, R., Townend, J., Toy, V.G., Saffer, D.M.

“…We report on laboratory measurements of permeability and elastic wavespeed for a suite of samples obtained by drilling across the active Alpine Fault on the…”
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Microstructures imply cataclasis and authigenic mineral formation control geomechanical properties of New Zealand's Alpine Fault by Schuck, B., Janssen, C., Schleicher, A.M., Toy, V.G., Dresen, G.

“…The Alpine Fault is capable of generating large (MW > 8) earthquakes and is the main geohazard on South Island, NZ, and late in its 250–291-year seismic cycle…”
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How do lineations reflect the strain history of transpressive shear zones? The example of the active Alpine Fault zone, New Zealand by Toy, V.G., Norris, R.J., Prior, D.J., Walrond, M., Cooper, A.F.

“…Lineations within mylonites exhumed in the hanging wall of New Zealand's active Alpine Fault zone have a complicated relationship to contemporary plate…”
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Recrystallisation, phase mixing and strain localisation in peridotite during rapid extrusion of sub-arc mantle lithosphere by Czertowicz, T.A., Toy, V.G., Scott, J.M.

“…The Anita Peridotite, in southwestern New Zealand, is a ∼1 × 20 km ultramafic massif that was rapidly extruded from beneath a Cretaceous arc within the 4 km…”
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Significance of brittle deformation in the footwall of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Smithy Creek Fault zone by Lund Snee, J.-E., Toy, V.G., Gessner, K.

“…The Smithy Creek Fault represents a rare exposure of a brittle fault zone within Australian Plate rocks that constitute the footwall of the Alpine Fault zone…”
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Localisation of deformation in the thermal contrast at a granite batholith margin, New Zealand by Scott, J.M., Borcovsky, D.A., Palin, J.M., Toy, V.G.

“…The Wainui Shear Zone is a ∼ 1.2 km wide steeply dipping ductile shear zone that is intimately associated with the western margin of a very extensive granite…”
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