We are pleased to advise that we have in the past few weeks (January 2024) published an open access paper in the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics on our findings from research undertaken on the recently discovered Te Puninga Fault near Morrinsville. The paper is available here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00288306.2023.2296875
The article is based on analyses of two trenches excavated across the fault in February 2022 (see photos). The purpose of the work was to examine the possible size and frequency of earthquakes on the fault, which would potentially have had an impact on the lakes and associated liquefied lacustrine tephras we are investigating in the adjacent Hamilton lowlands.
The work forms part of our Marsden-funded ‘tephra seismites’ project and was co-funded by a grant by Toka Tū Ake EQC led by Dr Pilar Villamor of GNS Science.
For more information about the findings just published, please see the media release here:
Tephra Seismites 