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Alpine Fault, New Zealand

 

alpine fault cataclasite

Roberto Weinberg
School of Geosciences, Monash University, Australia

 

 

 

 

 

This page documents a few outcrops of the Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand.

 


Shear Zone at Franz Joseph Glacier
mylonite mylonite
a) . b) .
mylonite mylonite
c)No scale. Enjoy the beauty. d) No scale. Enjoy the beauty.
mylonite mylonite
c)No scale. Enjoy the beauty. d) No scale. Enjoy the beauty.
mylonite mylonite
c)No scale. Enjoy the beauty. d) No scale. Enjoy the beauty.

Pseudotachylites
Pseudotachylyte
Pseudotachylyte
c) Pseudotachylyte d) Detail of (c)
Pseudotachylyte Pseudotachylyte
e) Pseudotachylyte breccia. f) Pseudotachylyte breccia.
Pseudotachylyte Pseudotachylyte
e) Pseudotachylyte breccia. f) Pseudotachylyte breccia.

Cataclasite in Herald Creek
cataclasite cataclasite
a) Green cataclasite thrusting basement on top of unconsolidated Quaternaray gravel. b) Australia pushing agains New Zealand.