Publications - Carolyn Boulton

Ellis, S., F. Ghisetti, P. M. Barnes, C. Boulton, Å. Fagereng, and S. Buiter (2019). The contemporary force balance in a wide accretionary wedge: numerical models of the south-central Hikurangi margin of New Zealand. Geophysical Journal International, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz317.

Boulton, C., A. R. Niemeijer, C. J. Hollis, J. Townend, M. D. Raven, D. K. Kulhanek, and C. L. Shepherd (2019). Temperature-dependent frictional properties of heterogeneous Hikurangi Subduction Zone input sediments, ODP Site 1124. Tectonophysics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.02.006.

Little, T. A., S. M. Webber, M. Mizera, C. Boulton, J. Oesterle, S. Ellis, A. Boles, B. van der Pluijm, K. Norton, D. Seward, J. Biemiller, and L. Wallace (in press). Evolution of a rapidly slipping, active low-angle normal fault, Suckling-Dayman Metamorphic Core Complex, SE Papua New Guinea. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull.

Boulton, C., N. C. Barth, D. E. Moore, D. A. Lockner, J. Townend, and D. R. Faulkner (2018), Frictional properties and 3-D stress analysis of the southern Alpine Fault, New Zealand. J. Struct. Geol., 114, 43-54.

Faulkner, D. R., C. Sanchez-Roa, C. Boulton, and S. A. M. den Hartog (2018), Pore fluid pressure development in compacting fault gouge in theory, experiments, and nature. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 123, doi:10.1002/2017JB015130.

Boulton, C., C. D. Menzies, V. G. Toy, J. Townend, and R. Sutherland (2017a), Geochemical and microstructural evidence for interseismic changes in fault zone permeability and strength, Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys.,18, 238-265.

Boulton, C., L. Yao, D. R. Faulkner, S. Ma, T. Shimamoto, V. Toy, J. Townend, and R. Sutherland (2017b), High-velocity frictional properties of Alpine Fault rocks: mechanical data, microstructural analysis, and implications for rupture propagation. J. Struct. Geol., 97, 71-92.

Boulton, C., L. Janku-Capova, J.N. Williams, and J.P. Coussens (2017c), A window into thousands of earthquakes: Results from the Deep Fault Drilling Project (DFDP). N. Z. Science Review, 74(2), 27-35.

Allen, M. J., D. Tatham, D. R. Faulkner, E. Mariani, and C. Boulton (2017), Permeability and seismic velocity anisotropy and their anisotropy across the Alpine Fault, New Zealand: an insight from laboratory measurements on core from the Deep Fault Drilling Project phase 1 (DFDP-1). J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, doi:10.1002/2017JB014355.

Sanchez-Roa, C., D. R. Faulkner, C. Boulton, J. Jimenez-Millan, and F. Nieto (2017), How phyllosilicate mineral structure affects fault strength in Mg-rich fault systems. Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL073055.

Sutherland, R., J. Townend, V. G. Toy, P. Upton, and the DFDP-2 Science Team (2017), Extreme hydrothermal conditions at an active plate-bounding fault. Nature, 546, 137-140.

Townend, J., R. Sutherland, V. G. Toy, M.-L. Doan, and the DFDP-2 Science Team (2017), Petrophysical, geochemical, and hydrological evidence for extensive fracture-mediated fluid and heat transport in the Alpine Fault’s hanging-wall damage zone. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys.,18, doi:10.1002/2017GC007202.

Williams, J. N., V. G. Toy, S. A. F. Smith, and C. Boulton (2017), Fracturing, fluid-rock interaction and mineralization during the seismic cycle along the Alpine Fault. J. Struct. Geol., 103, 151-166, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2017.09.011.

Niemeijer, A. R., C. Boulton, V. G. Toy, J. Townend, and R. Sutherland (2016), Large-displacement, hydrothermal frictional properties of DFDP-1 fault rocks, Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Implications for deep rupture propagation. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, doi:10.1002/2015JB012593.

Toy, V. G., C. J. Boulton, R. Sutherland, J. Townend, R. J. Norris, T. A. Little, D. J. Prior, E. Mariani, D. Faulkner, C. D. Menzies, H. Scott, and B. M. Carpenter (2015), Fault rock lithologies and architecture of the central Alpine fault, New Zealand, revealed by DFDP-1 drilling. Lithosphere, 7(2), 155-173, doi:10.1130/L395.1.

Boulton, C. J. (2014), Experimental Investigation of Gouges and Cataclasites, Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Doctor of Philosophy thesis: University of Canterbury.

Boulton, C., D. E. Moore, D. A. Lockner, V. G. Toy, J. Townend, and R. Sutherland (2014), Frictional properties of exhumed fault gouges in DFDP-1 cores, Alpine Fault, New Zealand, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1002/2013GL058236.

Townend, J., R. Sutherland, V. G. Toy, J. D. Eccles, C. Boulton, S. C. Cox, and D. McNamara (2013), Late-interseismic state of a continental plate-bounding fault: Petrophysical results from DFDP-1 wireline logging and core analysis, Alpine Fault, New Zealand, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., doi:10.1002/ggge.20236.

Barth, N. C., C. Boulton, B. M. Carpenter, G. E. Batt, and V. G. Toy (2013), Slip localization on the southern Alpine Fault, New Zealand, Tectonics, 32(3), 620-640.

Sutherland, R., V. G. Toy, J. Townend, S. C. Cox, J. D. Eccles, D. R. Faulkner, D. J. Prior, R. J. Norris, E. Mariani, C. Boulton, B. M. Carpenter, C. D. Menzies, T. A. Little, M. Hasting, G. De Pascale, R. M. Langridge, H. R. Scott, Z. Reid-Lindroos, and B. Fleming (2012), Drilling reveals fluid control on architecture and rupture of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand, Geology, 40, 1143-1146.

Boulton, C., B. M. Carpenter, V. G. Toy, and C. Marone (2012), Physical properties of surface outcrop cataclastic fault rocks, Alpine Fault, New Zealand, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 13, Q01018, doi:10.1029/2011GC003872.

Davies, T. R., M. J. McSaveney, and C. J. Boulton (2012), Elastic strain energy release from fragmenting grains: Effects on fault rupture, J. Struct. Geol., 38, 265-277.

Boulton, C. J., T. R. Davies, and M. J. McSaveney (2009), The frictional strength of granular fault gouge: application of theory to the mechanics of low-angle normal faults, J. Geol. Soc. London Special Publications, 321, 9-31.

Phillips, C. J., A. F. Cooper, M. J. Palin, and S. Nathan (2005), Geochronological constraints on Cretaceous-Paleocene volcanism in South Westland, New Zealand, N. Z. J. Geol. Geophys., 48, 1-14.