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Original Articles

Alexander McKay and the awatere fault, New Zealand: Ground rupturing and large‐scale horizontal displacement

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Pages 349-365 | Received 22 Jul 2009, Accepted 28 Sep 2009, Published online: 26 Apr 2010

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