Earthquake-dammed lakes in New Zealand
Abstract
Eleven small lakes were formed by landslides caused by the 1929 Buller earthquake; four others were formed by other historic earthquakes in New Zealand. At least nine other New Zealand lakes are also dammed by landslides and were probably formed by prehistoric earthquakes. When recognized by morphology, synchronous age, and areal distribution, earthquake-dammed lakes could provide an estimate of paleoseismicity for the past few hundred or thousand years.
- Publication:
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Geology
- Pub Date:
- May 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1130/0091-7613(1981)9<215:ELINZ>2.0.CO;2
- Bibcode:
- 1981Geo.....9..215A