Rupert Sutherland

Research interests

Publications

• Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent

  GSA Today · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1130/gsatg321a.1

• A seismic reflection image for the base of a tectonic plate

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14146

• Revised Interface Geometry for the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, New Zealand

  Seismological Research Letters · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1785/0220130035

• A model of active faulting in New Zealand

  New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2013.854256

• Drilling reveals fluid control on architecture and rupture of the Alpine fault, New Zealand

  Geology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1130/g33614.1

• Seismic reflection character of the Hikurangi subduction interface, New Zealand, in the region of repeated Gisborne slow slip events

  Geophysical Journal International · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246x.2009.04401.x

• Geometry of the Hikurangi subduction thrust and upper plate, North Island, New Zealand

  Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2008gc002153

• Characterizing the seismogenic zone of a major plate boundary subduction thrust: Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand

  Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gc002610

• Do great earthquakes occur on the Alpine Fault in central South Island, New Zealand?

  Geophysical monograph · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1029/175gm12

• Quaternary slip rate and geomorphology of the Alpine fault: Implications for kinematics and seismic hazard in southwest New Zealand

  Geological Society of America Bulletin · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1130/b25627.1

• Prediction of Emperor-Hawaii seamount locations from a revised model of global plate motion and mantle flow

  Nature · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02660

• Plate boundary deformation in South Island, New Zealand, is related to inherited lithospheric structure

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x(00)00043-1

• Cenozoic bending of New Zealand basement terranes and Alpine Fault displacement: A brief review

  New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.1999.9514846

• Basement geology and tectonic development of the greater New Zealand region: an interpretation from regional magnetic data

  Tectonophysics · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0040-1951(99)00108-0

• The Australia‐Pacific boundary and Cenozoic plate motions in the SW Pacific: Some constraints from Geosat data

  Tectonics · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1029/95tc00930

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