Geological Survey of New Zealand Palaeontological Bulletin 14. R. S. Allan

1936 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 651-652
Author(s):  
Dan J. Jones
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Geological Survey

scholarly journals Preliminary paleoearthquake investigations of active faults on Awaji Island, Japan,
 in relation to the 1995 Great Hanshin (Kobe) earthquake

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-177
Author(s):  
R. Van Dissen ◽  
J. Begg ◽  
Y. Awata
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Active Fault ◽  
Active Faults ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Surface Rupture ◽  
Kobe Earthquake ◽  
Nojima Fault ◽  
One Year ◽  
Hanshin Earthquake

Approximately one year after the Great Hanshin (Kobe) Earthquake, two New Zealand geologists were invited to help with the Geological Survey of Japan's paleoearthquake/active fault studies in the Kobe/Awaji area. Trenches excavated across the Nojima fault, which ruptured during the Great Hanshin Earthquake, showed evidence of past surface rupture earthquakes, with the age of the penultimate earthquake estimated at approximately 2000 years. A trench across the Higashiura fault, located 3-4 km southeast of the Nojima fault, revealed at least two past surface rupture earthquakes. The timing of the older earthquakes is not yet known, but pottery fragments found in the trench constrain the timing of the most recent earthquake at less than 500-600 years. Historical records for this part of Japan suggest that within the last 700 years there has been only one regionally felt earthquake prior to the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, and this was the AD 1596 Keicho Earthquake. It thus seems reasonable to suggest that the Higashiura fault was, at least in part, the source of the AD 1596 Keicho Earthquake.

VIII.—Note on a Species of Scymnus from the Upper Tertiary Formation of New Zealand

1888 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 315-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Davis
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
Small Tooth ◽  
Royal Dublin Society ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains

In a Memoir recently published “On the Fossil Fish Remains of the Tertiary and Cretaceo-Tertiary Formations of New Zealand” (Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, vol. iv. ser. II. p. 11, pl. vi. fig. 22) there is described a small tooth as an immature example of Carcharodon angustidens, Ag. The specimen was included amongst a large number of others forwarded for examination by Sir James Hector, Director-General of the Geological Survey of New Zealand; it is a small tooth, exquisitely preserved, and does not exhibit any signs of abrasion by use, which led to its being provisionally considered as the tooth of a young shark, and its form and minutely serrated margin appeared to indicate that its relationship was with Carcharodon.

scholarly journals Notes from the New Zealand Geological Survey—8

1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 495-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. L. Grant-Taylor ◽  
A. G. Beu
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Geological Survey
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