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41 relations: Akaroa, Alpine Fault, Aoraki / Mount Cook, Arthur's Pass, Australian Plate, Banks Peninsula, Basalt, Canterbury Plains, Canterbury Regional Council, Canterbury, New Zealand, Crown Research Institute, Fiordland, Geraldine, New Zealand, GNS Science, Gondwana, Greymouth, Greywacke, Hanmer Springs, Hooker Glacier (New Zealand), Lake Pukaki, Lake Tekapo, Lyttelton, New Zealand, Mackenzie Basin, Malvern Hills, Marlborough Region, Miocene, Mount Somers, New Zealand, Pacific Plate, Rangiora, Rangitata River, Schist, Southern Alps, Tasman Glacier, Terrane, Timaru, Waiau River (Canterbury), Waitaki River, 1888 North Canterbury earthquake, 2010 Canterbury earthquake, 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
Akaroa
Akaroa is a small town on Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand, situated within a harbour of the same name.
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Alpine Fault
The Alpine Fault is a geological fault, specifically a right-lateral strike-slip fault, that runs almost the entire length of New Zealand's South Island.
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Aoraki / Mount Cook
Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand.
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Arthur's Pass
Arthur's Pass, previously called Camping Flat then Bealey Flats, and for some time officially Arthurs Pass, is a township in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand, located in the Selwyn district.
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Australian Plate
The Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate in the eastern and, largely, southern hemispheres.
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Banks Peninsula
Banks Peninsula is a peninsula of volcanic origin on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Basalt
Basalt is a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.
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Canterbury Plains
The Canterbury Plains is an area in New Zealand centred in the Mid Canterbury, to the south of the city of Christchurch in the Canterbury region.
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Canterbury Regional Council
Canterbury Regional Council is the regional council for Canterbury, the largest region in the South Island of New Zealand.
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Canterbury, New Zealand
Canterbury (Waitaha) is a region of New Zealand, located in the central-eastern South Island.
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Crown Research Institute
In New Zealand, Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) are corporatised Crown entities charged with conducting scientific research.
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Fiordland
Fiordland is a geographic region of New Zealand in the south-western corner of the South Island, comprising the western-most third of Southland.
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Geraldine, New Zealand
Geraldine or Heratini (Māori) is a town in the Canterbury Region on the South Island of New Zealand.
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GNS Science
GNS Science (Māori: Te Pū Ao) is a New Zealand Crown Research Institute.
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Gondwana
Gondwana, or Gondwanaland, was a supercontinent that existed from the Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) until the Carboniferous (about 320 million years ago).
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Greymouth
Greymouth (Māori: Māwhera) is the largest town in the West Coast region in the South Island of New Zealand, and the seat of the Grey District Council.
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Greywacke
Greywacke or Graywacke (German grauwacke, signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix.
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Hanmer Springs
Hanmer Springs is a small town in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Hooker Glacier (New Zealand)
Hooker Glacier is one of several glaciers close to the slopes of Aoraki / Mount Cook in the Southern Alps of New Zealand.
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Lake Pukaki
Lake Pukaki is the largest of three roughly parallel alpine lakes running north-south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin on New Zealand's South Island.
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Lake Tekapo
Lake Tekapo is the second-largest of three roughly parallel lakes running north–south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand (the others are Lake Pukaki and Lake Ohau).
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Lyttelton, New Zealand
Lyttelton (Māori: Ōhinehou) is a port town on the north shore of Lyttelton Harbour, at the north-western end of Banks Peninsula and close to Christchurch, on the eastern coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Mackenzie Basin
The Mackenzie Basin (popularly and traditionally known as the Mackenzie Country) is an elliptical intermontane basin located in the Mackenzie and Waitaki Districts, near the centre of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Malvern Hills
The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern.
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Marlborough Region
The Marlborough Region, commonly known simply as Marlborough, is one of the regions of New Zealand, located in the northeast of the South Island.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Mount Somers
Mount Somers (Te Kiekie) is a small town in Canterbury, New Zealand, nestled in the foothills of the Southern Alps.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Pacific Plate
The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean.
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Rangiora
Rangiora is the largest town and seat of the Waimakariri District, in Canterbury, New Zealand.
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Rangitata River
The Rangitata River is one of the braided rivers that helped form the Canterbury Plains in southern New Zealand.
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Schist
Schist (pronounced) is a medium-grade metamorphic rock with medium to large, flat, sheet-like grains in a preferred orientation (nearby grains are roughly parallel).
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Southern Alps
The Southern Alps (Kā Tiritiri-o-te-Moana) is a mountain range extending along much of the length of New Zealand's South Island, reaching its greatest elevations near the range's western side.
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Tasman Glacier
Haupapa / Tasman Glacier is the largest glacier in New Zealand, and one of several large glaciers which flow south and east towards the Mackenzie Basin from the Southern Alps in New Zealand's South Island.
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Terrane
A terrane in geology, in full a tectonostratigraphic terrane, is a fragment of crustal material formed on, or broken off from, one tectonic plate and accreted or "sutured" to crust lying on another plate.
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Timaru
Timaru (Te Tihi-o-Maru) is a port city in the southern Canterbury region of New Zealand, located 157 kilometres southwest of Christchurch and about 196 kilometres northeast of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific coast of the South Island.
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Waiau River (Canterbury)
Waiau Uwha River, previously known as the Waiau River, is a river in north Canterbury on the South Island of New Zealand.
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Waitaki River
The Waitaki River is a large braided river that drains the Mackenzie Basin and runs some south-east to enter the Pacific Ocean between Timaru and Oamaru on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
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1888 North Canterbury earthquake
The 1888 North Canterbury earthquake occurred at on 1 September following a sequence of foreshocks that started the previous evening, and whose epicentre was in the North Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand.
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2010 Canterbury earthquake
The 2010 Canterbury earthquake (also known as the Darfield earthquake) struck the South Island of New Zealand with a moment magnitude of 7.1 at on, and had a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale.
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2011 Christchurch earthquake
A earthquake occurred in Christchurch on at 12:51 p.m. local time (23:51 UTC).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Canterbury,_New_Zealand
