Full Name: Rupert Sutherland
Position: Tectonic Geologist
Contact details
Email: R.Sutherland
Phone: +64-4-570 4873
Qualifications
1989: BA (Hons., 1st Class); 1995: PhD Areas of expertise
Geology: Active fault studies
Geology: Basin studies
Geology: Heat flow and thermal regimes
Geology: Structural Geology
Geology: Sub-Antarctic & Antarctic Geology
Geology: Tectonics
Geophysics: Marine Geophysics
Professional activities
Geological Society of New Zealand: Member
New Zealand Geophysical Society: Member
American Geophysical Union: Member
IGNS: Editorial Board: Chair
Marsden Fund: Earth Sciences and Astronomy: Panel chair
Foundation for Research, Science and Technology: Programme Leader
Major publications
Sutherland, R.; Eberhart-Phillips, D.; Harris, R.A.; Stern, T.A.; Beavan, R.J.; Ellis, S.M.; Henrys, S.A.; Cox, S.C.; Norris, R.J.; Berryman, K.R.; Townend, J.; Bannister, S.C.; Pettinga, J.; Leitner, B.; Wallace, L.M.; Little, T.A.; Cooper, A.F.; Yetton, M.; Stirling, M.W. 2007 Do great earthquakes occur on the Alpine Fault in central South Island, New Zealand? p. 235-251 IN: Okaya, D.A.; Stern, T.A.; Davey, F.J. (eds) A continental plate boundary : tectonics at South Island, New Zealand. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union. Geophysical monograph 175.
Sutherland, R.; Kim, K.J.; Zondervan, A.; McSaveney, M.J. 2007 Orbital forcing of mid-latitude Southern Hemisphere glaciation since 100 ka inferred from cosmogenic nuclide ages of moraine boulders from the Cascade Plateau, southwest New Zealand. Geological Society of America bulletin, 119(3/4): 443-451; doi: 10.1130/B25852.1 [link to electronic copy]
Sutherland, R.; Berryman, K.R.; Norris, R. 2006 Quaternary slip rate and geomorphology of the Alpine Fault : implications for kinematics and seismic hazard in southwest New Zealand. Geological Society of America bulletin, 118(3/4): 464-474 [link to electronic copy]
Barnes, P.M.; Sutherland, R.; Delteil, J. 2005 Strike-slip structure and sedimentary basins of the southern Alpine Fault, Fiordland, New Zealand. Geological Society of America bulletin, 117(3/4): 411-435 [link to electronic copy]
Kim, K.J.; Sutherland, R. 2004 Uplift rate and landscape development in southwest Fiordland, New Zealand, determined using 10Be and 26Al exposure dating of marine terraces. Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 68(10): 2313-2319
Steinberger, B.; Sutherland, R.; O'Connell, R.J. 2004 Prediction of Emperor-Hawaii seamount locations from a revised model of global plate motion and mantle flow. Nature, 430(6996): 167-173 [link to electronic copy]
House, M.A.; Gurnis, M.; Kamp, P.J.J.; Sutherland, R. 2002 Uplift in the Fiordland region, New Zealand : implications for incipient subduction. Science, 297(5589): 2038-2041
Sutherland, R.; Hollis, C.J. 2001 Cretaceous demise of the Moa plate and strike-slip motion at the Gondwana margin. Geology, 29(3): 279-282
Sutherland, R.; Davey, F.J.; Beavan, R.J. 2000 Plate boundary deformation in South Island, New Zealand, is related to inherited lithospheric structure. Earth and planetary science letters, 177(3/4): 141-151
Sutherland, R.; Melhuish, A. 2000 Formation and evolution of the Solander Basin, southwestern South Island, New Zealand, controlled by a major fault in continental crust and upper mantle. Tectonics, 19(1): 44-61
Cook, R.A.; Sutherland, R.; Zhu, H. 1999 Cretaceous - Cenozoic geology and petroleum systems of the Great South Basin, New Zealand. Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences monograph 20. 190 p.
Sutherland, R. 1999 Basement geology and tectonic development of the greater New Zealand region : an interpretation from regional magnetic data. Tectonophysics, 308(3): 341-362
Sutherland, R. 1999 Cenozoic bending of New Zealand basement terranes and Alpine Fault displacement : a brief review. New Zealand journal of geology and geophysics, 42(2): 295-301
Sutherland, R. 1995 The Australia-Pacific boundary and Cenozoic plate motions in the SW Pacific : some constraints from Geosat data. Tectonics, 14(4): 819-831
Sutherland, R.; Norris, R.J. 1995 Late Quaternary displacement rate, paleoseismicity, and geomorphic evolution of the Alpine Fault : evidence from Hokuri Creek, South Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand journal of geology and geophysics, 38(4): 419-430
Sutherland, R. 1993 Displacement since the Pliocene along the southern section of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Geology, 22(4): 327-330
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