posted on 2020-07-20, 15:13authored byKeith A. Klepeis, Joshua J. Schwartz, Elena Miranda
The Fiordland and Stewart Island regions of SW New Zealand preserve a complete section of Cretaceous continental crust from depths of ~5 to ~65 km. These exposures allow us to directly observe how shear zone architecture and strain localization processes changed by depth within the crustal section.