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Original Articles

The Siberia Fault Zone, northwest Otago, and kinematics of mid‐Cenozoic plate boundary deformation in southern New Zealand

Pages 271-287 | Received 07 Feb 2001, Accepted 07 Jan 2002, Published online: 23 Mar 2010

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