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The Marlborough strike-slip fault array extends north from the dextral Alpine Fault transform; faults continue across Cook Strait to join the North Island Dextral Fault Belt in the Wellington region (central Aotearoa New Zealand). In Marlborough and beneath Cook Strait there are several pull-apart basins formed at releasing bend stepovers. Sandbox analogue models can help us decipher the mechanical and kinematic processes that produce structures like these. Base image from NASA – International Space Station 2003.

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