Continent-scale strike-slip on a low-angle fault beneath New Zealand's Southern Alps: Implications for crustal thickening in oblique collision zones
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عنوان ژورنال: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1525-2027
DOI: 10.1002/2015gc005990