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Professor Richard J Norris

Richard J Norris

MA DPhil(Oxon) FGS FRSNZ

 

Office - 1N15

Tel 64 3 479 7520
Email richard.norris@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Teaching

100-level

200-level

300-level

400-level

Research Interests

  • structural geology & tectonics
  • neotectonics, paleoseismology, Alpine Fault structure
  • N.Z. Cenozoic tectonics & basin evolution
  • deformation in the Haast Schists

Selected Recent Publications

  • Toy, V. G., Prior, D. J., Norris, R. J., Quartz fabrics in the Alpine Fault mylonites: Influence of pre-existing preferred orientations on fabric development during progressive uplift. Journal of Structural Geology 30(5), pp. 602-621 (2008).
  • Craw, D., Burridge, C., Norris, R. J., Waters, J., Genetic ages for Quaternary topographic evolution: a new dating tool. Geology 36, pp 19-22 (2008)
  • Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., The Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Surface geology and field relationships. In Okaya, D., Stern, T. & Davey, F. (eds) A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand. AGU Geophysical Monograph 175, American Geophysical Union, Washington D. C., pp 157-175 (2007)
  • Sutherland, R., Eberhart-Phillips, D., Harris, R., Stern, T., Beavan, J., Ellis, S., Henrys, S., Cox, S., Norris, R., Berryman, K., Townend, J., Bannister, S., Pettina, J., Leitner, B., Fallace, L., Little, T., Cooper, A., Yetton, M., Stirling, M., Do great earthquakes occur on the Alpine Fault in central South Island, New Zealand? In Okaya, D., Stern, T. & Davey, F. (eds) A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand. AGU Geophysical Monograph 175, American Geophysical Union, Washington D. C., pp 237-254 (2007).
  • Craw, D., MacKenzie, D., Pitcairn, I. K., Teagle, D. A. H., Norris, R. J., Geochemical signatures of mesothermal Au-mineralized late-metamorphic deformation zones, Otago Schist, New Zealand. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis 7, pp. 225-232 (2007)
  • Waters, J. M., Rowe, D. L., Apte, S., King, T. M., Wallis, G. P., Anderson, L., Norris, R. J., Craw, D., Burridge, C. M., Geological dates and molecular rates: Rapid divergence of rivers and their biotas. Systematic Biology 56, pp. 271-282 (2007).
  • Jones, P., Craw, D., Norris, R. J., Golden Bar deposit as an extension of the Hyde-Macraes Shear Zone, east Otago, New Zealand. N. Z. Journal of Geology & Geophysics 50, pp.271-2812 (2007).
  • Cox, L., McKenzie, D., Craw, D., Norris, R. J., Frew, R., Structure and geochemistry of the Rise and Shine Shear Zone mesothermal gold system, Otago Schist, New Zealand. N. Z. Journal of Geology & Geophysics 49, pp. 429-442 (2006).
  • Bennett, E. R., Youngson, J. H., Jackson, J. A., Norris, R. J., Raisbeck, G. M., Yiou, F., Combining geomorphic observations with in-situ cosmogenic isotope measurements to study anticline growth and fault propagation in Central Otago, New Zealand. N. Z. Journal of Geology & Geophysics 49, pp. 217-232 (2006).
  • Sutherland, R., Berryman, K. R., Norris, R. J., Quaternary slip rates and geomorphology of the Alpine Fault: Implications for kinematics and seismic hazard in southwest New Zealand. Geological Society of America Bulletin 118, pp. 464-474 (2006).
  • Youngson, J. H., Bennett, E. R., Jackson, J. A., Norris, R. J., Raisbeck, G. M., Yiou, F., 'Sarsen Stones' at German Hill, Central Otago, New Zealand, and their potential for in situ cosmogenic isotope dating of landscape evolution. Journal of Geology 113, pp. 341-354 (2005).
  • Bennett, E. R., Youngson, J. H., Jackson, J. A., Norris, R. J., Raisbeck, G. M., Yiou, F., Fielding, E., The growth of South Rough Ridge, central Otago, New Zealand: using in situ cosmogenic isotopes and geomorphology to study an active, blind reverse fault. Journal of Geophysical Research 110, doi: 10.1029/2004JB003184 (11 pp) (2005).
  • Craw, D., MacKenzie, D. J., Begbie, M., & Norris, R. J.. Late metamorphic structural zones in the Otago Schist: Prospective hosts for gold mineralisation. Proceedings of the New Zealand Minerals Conference, (pp. 89-97).  Auckland, New Zealand: Ministry of Economic Development & Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. (2005)
  • MacKenzie, D. J., Craw, D., Cox, L., & Norris, R. J.. Mineralisation and structural setting of the Rise and Shine Shear Zone, Otago Schist: Comparisons to the Macraes deposit. Proceedings of the New Zealand Minerals Conference, (pp. 374-379).  Auckland, New Zealand: Ministry of Economic Development & Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. (2005)
  • Norris, R. J. Strain localization within ductile shear zones beneath active faults: The Alpine Fault contrasted with the adjacent Otago fault system, New Zealand. Earth Planets Space 56, pp. 1095-1101 (2004)
  • Zink, C., Norris, R. J. Submarine fans within small basins: implications of field examples from the Tertiary of New Zealand. In: Lomas, S. A. and Joseph, P., Confined Turbidite Systems, Geological Society of London Special Publication 222, pp. 229-240 (2004).
  • Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F. Very high strains recorded in mylonites along the Alpine Fault, New Zealand: implications for the deep structure of plate boundary faults. Journal of Structural Geology 25, 2141-2157 (2003)
  • Koons, P. O., Norris, R. J., Craw, D., Cooper, A. F. Influence of exhumation on the structural evolution of transpressional plate boundaries: an example from the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Geology 31: 3-6 (2003)
  • Jackson, J., Ritz, J-F, Siame, L., Raisbeck, G., Yiou, F., Norris, R. J., Youngson, J., Bennett, E. Fault growth and landscape development rates in Otago, New Zealand, using in situ cosmogenic 10Be. Earth & Planetary Science Letters 195, 185-193 (2002)
  • Norris, R. J. and Cooper, A. F. Late Quaternary slip rates and slip partitioning on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Journal of Structural Geology 23: 507-520 (2001)

Also See Publications

Postgraduate Student Supervision

Current

  • Claudine Curran - Structure and Evolution of the Waihemo Fault System, North Otago. (PhD)
  • Dushan Jugum - The structural geology of the Dun Mountain Belt in West Otago. (PhD)

  • Jeremy Kilner -Seismic imaging of eastern Otago active fault structures. (MSc)

  • Luke Easterbrook-Clarke - The Alpine Fault and mylonite sequence as exposed in tributaries of the Waitangi-taona River, West Coast, New Zealand. (MSc)

  • Jamie Howarth - Reconstructing the landscape response to high magnitude disturbance in active mountain belts (PhD)

  • Ross Nicolls - Quaternary fault activity in Central and Eastern Otago. (MSc)

Recent

  • Virginia Toy - Mylonites and pseudotachylytes found adjacent to the central Alpine Fault. (PhD)
  • Heather Campbell - The Alpine Fault at Jackson River, South Westland. (PhD)
  • Hamish Blakemore - Slope stability in the upper Taieri Gorge (MSc)
  • Marian Hanson - The Waihemo Fault System, North Otago (MSc)
  • Nicola Litchfield - Quaternary coastal deformation in East Otago (PhD)
  • Michelle Markley - Blackstone Hill - Structure and Neotectonics (MSc)
  • Colin Patchell - Western Southland Geology (MSc)
  • Mark Walrond - Alpine Fault Structure. (PhD)
  • Stephen White - Kinematics and displacement history of the Moonlight - Haast River fault, NW Otago and brittle fault deformation of schist. (PhD)
  • Craig Wright - Alpine Fault Geology (MSc)
  • Trevor Wright - Paleoseismicity of the Alpine Fault South of Haast (MSc)
  • Christoph Zink - Middle Eocene to Middle Miocene evolution of the Te Anau Basin, Western Southland, New Zealand. (PhD)