| Complex multifault rupture during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand IJ Hamling, S Hreinsdóttir, K Clark, J Elliott, C Liang, E Fielding, ... Science 356 (6334), eaam7194, 2017 | 663 | 2017 |
| National seismic hazard model for New Zealand: 2010 update M Stirling, G McVerry, M Gerstenberger, N Litchfield, R Van Dissen, ... Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 102 (4), 1514-1542, 2012 | 600 | 2012 |
| A geometric model of fault zone and fault rock thickness variations C Childs, T Manzocchi, JJ Walsh, CG Bonson, A Nicol, MPJ Schöpfer Journal of Structural Geology 31 (2), 117-127, 2009 | 557 | 2009 |
| Formation of segmented normal faults: a 3-D perspective JJ Walsh, WR Bailey, C Childs, A Nicol, CG Bonson Journal of Structural Geology 25 (8), 1251-1262, 2003 | 462 | 2003 |
| An alternative model for the growth of faults JJ Walsh, A Nicol, C Childs Journal of Structural Geology 24 (11), 1669-1675, 2002 | 427 | 2002 |
| The shapes, major axis orientations and displacement patterns of fault surfaces A Nicol, J Watterson, JJ Walsh, C Childs Journal of Structural Geology 18 (2-3), 235-248, 1996 | 357 | 1996 |
| The New Zealand active faults database RM Langridge, WF Ries, NJ Litchfield, P Villamor, RJ Van Dissen, ... New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 59 (1), 86-96, 2016 | 299 | 2016 |
| The growth and propagation of synsedimentary faults C Childs, A Nicol, JJ Walsh, J Watterson Journal of Structural geology 25 (4), 633-648, 2003 | 276 | 2003 |
| Growth of vertically segmented normal faults C Childs, A Nicol, JJ Walsh, J Watterson Journal of Structural Geology 18 (12), 1389-1397, 1996 | 256 | 1996 |
| Segmentation and growth of an obliquely reactivated normal fault M Giba, JJ Walsh, A Nicol Journal of Structural Geology 39, 253-267, 2012 | 241 | 2012 |
| Tectonic evolution of the active Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand, since the Oligocene A Nicol, C Mazengarb, F Chanier, G Rait, C Uruski, L Wallace Tectonics 26 (4), 2007 | 237 | 2007 |
| Characterizing the seismogenic zone of a major plate boundary subduction thrust: Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand LM Wallace, M Reyners, U Cochran, S Bannister, PM Barnes, K Berryman, ... Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 10 (10), 2009 | 232 | 2009 |
| A model of active faulting in New Zealand N Lithcfield, R Van Dissen, R Sutherland, P Barnes, S Cox, R Norris, ... New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 57 (1), 32-56, 2014 | 221 | 2014 |
| Growth of a normal fault by the accumulation of slip over millions of years A Nicol, J Walsh, K Berryman, S Nodder Journal of Structural Geology 27 (2), 327-342, 2005 | 187 | 2005 |
| Regional structure and kinematic history of a large subduction back thrust: Taranaki Fault, New Zealand V Stagpoole, A Nicol Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 113 (B1), 2008 | 184 | 2008 |
| Late Cenozoic evolution and earthquake potential of an active listric thrust complex above the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand PM Barnes, A Nicol, T Harrison Geological Society of America Bulletin 114 (11), 1379-1405, 2002 | 177 | 2002 |
| Progressive localisation of strain during the evolution of a normal fault population V Meyer, A Nicol, C Childs, JJ Walsh, J Watterson Journal of Structural Geology 24 (8), 1215-1231, 2002 | 166 | 2002 |
| Surface Rupture of Multiple Crustal Faults in the 2016 7.8 Kaikōura, New Zealand, Earthquake NJ Litchfield, P Villamor, RJV Dissen, A Nicol, PM Barnes, DJ A. Barrell, ... Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 108 (3B), 1496-1520, 2018 | 151 | 2018 |
| Fault size distributions—are they really power-law? A Nicol, JJ Walsh, J Watterson, PA Gillespie Journal of Structural Geology 18 (2-3), 191-197, 1996 | 136 | 1996 |
| Shortening of an overriding plate and its implications for slip on a subduction thrust, central Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand A Nicol, J Beavan Tectonics 22 (6), 2003 | 135 | 2003 |