Staff profiles
Russ Van DissenEarthquake Geologist
Qualifications
- AA, Liberal arts
- BA, Geology
- MS, geology
Areas of expertise
- Geology: Earthquake Hazard Assessment
- Geology: Active fault studies
- Geology: Paleoseismology
- Geology: tectonic geomorphology
- Geology: Quaternary geology
Major Publications
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- Curved slickenlines preserve direction of rupture propagation, Geology 47(9): p. 838-842. DOI: 10.1130/G46563.1.
- Paleoseismology of the 2010 Mw 7.1 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquake source, Greendale Fault, New Zealand, Tectonophysics 637: p. 178-190. DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.10.004.
- A model of active faulting in New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 57(1): p. 32-56. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2013.854256.
- Fault kinematics and surface deformation across a releasing bend during the 2010 Mw 7.1 Darfield, New Zealand, earthquake revealed by differential LiDAR and cadastral surveying, Geological Society of America Bulletin 125(3/4): p. 420-431. DOI: 10.1130/B30753.1.
- Conditional probability of rupture of the Wairarapa and Ohariu faults, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 56(2): p. 53-67. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2012.756042.
- The kinematics of a transition from subduction to strike-slip : an example from the central New Zealand plate boundary, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 117(2): B02405. DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008640.
- Surface rupture during the 2010 Mw 7.1 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquake : implications for fault rupture dynamics and seismic-hazard analysis, Geology 40(1): p. 55-58. DOI: 10.1130/G32528.1.
- Five thousand years of surface ruptures on the Wellington Fault, New Zealand : implications for recurrence and fault segmentation, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 101(5): p. 2088-2107. DOI: 10.1785/0120100340.
- Using synthetic seismicity to evaluate seismic hazard in the Wellington region, New Zealand, Geophysical Journal International 187(1): p. 510-528. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05161.x.
- Re-evaluation of conditional probability of rupture of the Wellington-Hutt Valley segment of the Wellington Fault, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 44(2): p. 77-86. DOI: 10.5459/bnzsee.44.2.77-86.
- Coseismic strike slip at a point during the last four earthquakes on the Wellington Fault near Wellington, New Zealand, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 115: B05403. DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006589.
- Post c.300 year rupture of the Ohariu Fault in Ohariu Valley, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 53(1): p. 43-56. DOI: 10.1080/00288301003631780.
- Surface rupture of the Greendale Fault during the Darfield (Canterbury) Earthquake, New Zealand : initial findings, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 43(4): p. 236-242. DOI: 10.5459/bnzsee.43.4.236-242.
- Late Holocene surface ruptures on the southern Wairarapa fault, New Zealand : link between earthquakes and the uplifting of beach ridges on a rocky coast, Lithosphere 1(1): p. 4-28. DOI: 10.1130/L7.1.
- The Rangipo Fault, Taupo rift, New Zealand : an example of temporal slip-rate and single-event displacement variability in a volcanic environment, Geological Society of America Bulletin 119(5/6): p. 529-547. DOI: 10.1130/B26000.1.
- Rates of active faulting during Late Quaternary fluvial terrace formation at Saxton River, Awatere Fault, New Zealand, Geological Society of America Bulletin 118(11/12): p. 1431-1446.
- Estimates of the time-varying hazard of rupture of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand, allowing for uncertainties, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 46(4): p. 479-488. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2003.9515023.
- Up-dip partitioning of displacement components on the oblique-slip Clarence Fault, New Zealand, Journal of Structural Geology 24: p. 1521-1535.
- Growth of contractional structures during the last 10 m.y. at the southern end of the emergent Hikurangi forearc basin, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 45(3): p. 365-385. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2002.9514979.
- Earthquake source identification and characterisation for the Canterbury region, South Island, New Zealand, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 34(4): p. 282-317. DOI: 10.5459/bnzsee.34.4.282-317.
- Late Quaternary paleoseismic history and surface rupture characteristics of the eastern Awatere strike-slip fault, New Zealand, Geological Society of America Bulletin 113(8): p. 1079-1091. DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<1079:LQPHAS>2.0.CO;2.
- The 1942 Wairarapa, New Zealand, earthquakes : analysis of observational and instrumental data, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 34(2): p. 125-157. DOI: 10.5459/bnzsee.34.2.125-157.
- Tilting of active folds and faults in the Manawatu Region, New Zealand : evidence from surface drainage patterns, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 41(4): p. 377-385. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1998.9514817.
- Surface rupture earthquakes over the last ~1000 years in the Wellington region, New Zealand, and implications for ground shaking hazard, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 101(B3): p. 5999-6019.
- Paleoseismicity of the Wellington - Hutt Valley Segment of the Wellington Fault, North Island, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 35(2): p. 165-176. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1992.9514511.
- Hope fault, Jordan thrust, and uplift of the Seaward Kaikoura Range, New Zealand, Geology 19(4): p. 393-396.