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Griffin, J.
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Reverse faulting in Otago, southern New Zealand, accommodates distributed tectonic convergence on the eastern side of the Australian-Pacific plate boundary. Paleoearthquake records from some of the faults in the region show highly variable earthquake recurrence times, with long periods of quiescence separated by periods of earthquake activity. Here we develop a longer-term context for these records, using cosmogenic radionuclide dating of faulted alluvial fan surfaces to characterize the late Quaternary slip rates on two significant faults within the system, the Hyde and Dunstan faults. We determine an average slip rate of 0.24 mm/yr (0.19–0.29 mm/yr at 95% confidence) for the Hyde Fault since about 115 ka, and an average slip rate of 0.16 mm/yr (0.12–0.21 mm/yr) for the Dunstan Fault since about 320 ka. Both faults show increases in slip rate of a factor of three to five times the average long-term rate over timescales of 10 kyr. Increases in slip rate are out of phase on the two faults, supporting a hypothesis that strain is shared within the fault system over timescales on the order of 10 kyr. Over longer timescales, on the order of 100 kyr, slip rates can be well-approximated by a linear fit, providing an upper limit on the variability of fault slip rates with time. <b>Citation:</b> Griffin, J. D., Stirling, M. W., Wilcken, K. M., & Barrell, D. J. A. (2022). Late Quaternary slip rates for the Hyde and Dunstan faults, southern New Zealand: Implications for strain migration in a slowly deforming continental plate margin. <i>Tectonics</i>, 41, e2022TC007250. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022TC007250
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- EARTH SCIENCES
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- fault slip rates
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- Geomorphic Interpretation
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- Topographic Profiling
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- Fault Displacement Rates
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- Hyde Fault
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- Dunstan Fault
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Tectonics Volume 41, Issue 9, September 2022, e2022TC007250
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