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MARCH–APRIL 2017 | VOLUME 27, NUMBER 3–4
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4 Quaternary Rupture of a Crustal Fault
beneath Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Kristin D. Morell et al.
Cover: Landsat 7 image of southern Vancouver Island, show-
ing the surface trace of the Leech River fault and its intersec-
tion with the population centers surrounding Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada. See related article, p. 4–10.
27 Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent
Nick Mortimer et al.
Inside Cover: The St. Bathans Range, Otago, New Zealand,
shows three key elements of Zealandia. The bedrock is
Mesozoic Haast Schist, a major geological unit that can be
tracked across the continent. The flat top of the range is a
diachronous Late Cretaceous to Oligocene marine planation
surface that was cut as Zealandia subsided. Like the rest of the
South Island of New Zealand, the 2000-m-high range was
lifted up in the Neogene in response to intracontinental
transpression across the Pacific-Australian plate boundary.
p. 27–35.
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