Susan Ellis

Publications

• Fault damage zones in mechanically layered rocks: The effects of planar anisotropy
• Upper plate tectonic stress state may influence interseismic coupling on subduction megathrusts
• On factors controlling the depth of interseismic coupling on the Hikurangi subduction interface, New Zealand
• On the Coupling of Geodynamic and Resistivity Models: A Progress Report and the Way Forward
• A phenomenological numerical approach for investigating grain size evolution in ductiley deforming rocks
• The darfield (canterbury) earthquake: Geodetic observations and preliminary source model
• Feedback between rifting and diapirism can exhume ultrahigh-pressure rocks
• Detecting hazardous New Zealand faults at depth using seismic velocity gradients
• Testing proposed mechanisms for seafloor weakening at the top of gas hydrate stability on an uplifted submarine ridge (Rock Garden), New Zealand
• The role of boundary conditions in numerical models of subduction zone dynamics
• Paleomagnetic evidence for vertical-axis rotations of crustal blocks in the Woodlark Rift, SE Papua New Guinea: Miocene to present-day kinematics in one of the world's most rapidly extending plate boundary zones
• Complex states of stress during the normal faulting seismic cycle: Role of midcrustal postseismic creep
• Mid-crustal controls on episodic stress-field rotation around major reverse, normal and strike-slip faults
• The role of frictional plasticity in the evolution of normal fault systems
• Insights into subduction-related uplift along the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand, using numerical modeling
• Kinematic constraints from GPS on oblique convergence of the pacific and Australian plates, Central South Island, New Zealand
• Diapiric exhumation of Earth's youngest (UHP) eclogites in the gneiss domes of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea
• Collisional model for rapid fore-arc block rotations, arc curvature, and episodic back-arc rifting in subduction settings
• Three-dimensional mantle lithosphere deformation at collisional plate boundaries: A subduction scissor across the South Island of New Zealand
• Modeling Strain and Anisotropy Along the Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand
• Do great earthquakes occur on the alpine fault in central South Island, New Zealand?
• Rheological constraints on quartz derived from scaling relationships and numerical models of sheared brittle-ductile quartz veins, central Southern Alps, New Zealand
• The effect of crustal melt on rift dynamics: Case study of the Taupo Volcanic Zone
• New Zealand GPS velocity field: 1995–2013
• Enigmatic, highly active left-lateral shear zone in southwest Japan explained by aseismic ridge collision
• Energetics of normal earthquakes on dip-slip faults
• Convective flows in a TVZ-like setting with a brittle/ductile transition
• A future magma inflation event under the rhyolitic Taupo volcano, New Zealand: Numerical models based on constraints from geochemical, geological, and geophysical data
• Establishing a versatile 3-D seismic velocity model for New Zealand
• Hydrological effects of dip-slip fault rupture on a hydrothermal plume
• Crustal deformation and stress transfer during a propagating earthquake sequence: The 2013 Cook Strait sequence, central New Zealand
• The last 2 Myr of accretionary wedge construction in the central Hikurangi margin (North Island, New Zealand): Insights from structural modeling
• Imaging P and S attenuation in the termination region of the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand
• Calculating regional stresses for northern Canterbury: the effect of the 2010 Darfield earthquake
• Fluid budgets along the northern Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand: The effect of a subducting seamount on fluid pressure
• Continental breakup and UHP rock exhumation in action: GPS results from the Woodlark Rift, Papua New Guinea
• Characterizing the seismogenic zone of a major plate boundary subduction thrust: Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand
• Rapid Evolution of Subduction-Related Continental Intraarc Rifts: The Taupo Rift, New Zealand
• Induced seismicity; observations, risks and mitigation measures at CO2storage sites
• Subduction systems revealed: Studies of the hikurangi margin
• Rapid creep and simultaneous fracturing of modelled subduction melange at low stress
• Erosion of seafloor ridges at the top of the gas hydrate stability zone, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand—new insights from research cruises between 2005 and 2007
• A continental plate boundary: tectonics at South Island, New Zealand
• How fast can low-angle normal faults slip? Insights from cosmogenic exposure dating of the active Mai’iu fault, Papua New Guinea
• Triggered slow slip and afterslip on the southern Hikurangi subduction zone following the Kaikōura earthquake
• Fluid-related deformation processes at the up-and downdip limits of the subduction thrust seismogenic zone: What do the rocks tell us?
• “Virtual shear box” experiments of stress and slip cycling within a subduction interface mélange
• The role of protothrusts in frontal accretion and accommodation of plate convergence, Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand
• Modelling of hydrothermal fluid flow and structural architecture in an extensional basin, Ngakuru Graben, Taupo Rift, New Zealand
• Strength of Strained Two‐Phase Mixtures: Application to Rapid Creep and Stress Amplification in Subduction Zone Mélange
• Mechanical model for subduction-collision tectonics of Alpine-type compressional orogens
• Dynamics of sediment subduction-accretion at convergent margins: Short-term modes, long-term deformation, and tectonic implications
• Geodynamic models of crustal-scale episodic tectonic accretion and underplating in subduction zones
• Conductive heat flow variations from bottom-simulating reflectors on the Hikurangi margin, New Zealand
• Strain localization as a key to reconciling experimentally derived flow-law data with dynamic models of continental collision
• Collision tectonics in the Swiss Alps: Insight fro geodynamic modeling
• Imposed strain localization in the lower crust on seismic timescales
• Models of convergent boundary tectonics: Implications for the interpretation of Lithoprobe data
• Mechanical model for subduction-collision tectonics of Alpine-type compressional orogens
• Continental collision including a weak zone: The vise model and its application to the Newfoundland Appalachians
• Crustal flow modes in large hot orogens
• The numerical sandbox: Comparison of model results for a shortening and an extension experiment
• Rapid microplate rotations and backarc rifting at the transition between collision and subduction
• Simplified models of the Alpine Fault seismic cycle: Stress transfer in the mid-crust
• A modified Terzaghi consolidation factor for first-order estimation of overpressure resulting from sedimentation: Review and synthesis
• Elevated stresses and creep rates beneath the brittle-ductile transition caused by seismic faulting in the upper crust
• Contrasting pressure regimes in sedimentary basins associated with a plate boundary, New Zealand
• Forces driving continental collision: Reconciling indentation and mantle subduction tectonics
• Oblique convergence of the crust driven by basal forcing: implications for length‐scales of deformation and strain partitioning in orogens
• Bounds on the width of mantle lithosphere flow derived from surface geodetic measurements: Application to the central Southern Alps, New Zealand
• Comparisons between analogue and numerical models of thrust wedge development
• Erosion of the seafloor at the top of the gas hydrate stability zone on the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand
• Numerical models of Alpine-type cover nappes
• Models of convergent boundary tectonics: implications for the interpretation of Lithoprobe data
• Contrasting geodynamics of small cold and giant hot orogens
• Modeling strain and anisotropy along the Alpine fault, South Island, New Zealand
• SOME KEY INGREDIENTS FOR SIMULATION OF OROGENIC 2-08 PROCESSES AT GEOLOGICAL AND SEISMIC TIMESCALES
• Erosion of the seafloor at the top of gas hydrate stability: Evidence from an uplifted ridge on the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand.
• Continental convergence: Length-scales, aspect ratios, and styles of crustal deformation (PhD thesis, Dalhousie University).
• Induced seismicity; observations, risks and mitigation measures at CO2storage sites