Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Boundary: Background, Motivation, and Principal Results -- SECTION I: Regional Framework of Pacific/Indo-Australian Plate Boundary -- Regional Geological Framework of South Island, New Zealand, and its Significance for Understanding the Active Plate Boundary -- Geophysical Structure of the Southern Alps Orogen, South Island, New Zealand -- Kinematic Constraints From GPS on Oblique Convergence of the Pacific and Australian Plates, Central South Island, New Zealand -- Seismic Anisotropy in South Island, New Zealand -- Crustal Thickness and Pn Anisotropy Beneath the Southern Alps Oblique Collision, New Zealand -- Compressional and Shear Wave Velocities in South Island, New Zealand Rocks and Their Application to the Interpretation of Seismological Models of the New Zealand Crust -- SECTION II: The Plate Boundary (Alpine Fault) & Associated Mountain Building(Southern Alps) -- The Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Surface Geology and Field Relationships -- Deformation of the Pacific Plate Above the Alpine Fault Ramp and its Relationship to Expulsion of Metamorphic Fluids: An Array of Backshears -- Geophysical Exploration and Dynamics of the Alpine Fault Zone -- Do Great Earthquakes Occur on the Alpine Fault in Central South Island, New Zealand? -- SECTION III: Plate Boundary Dynamics -- Three-Dimensional Geodynamic Framework for the Central Southern Alps, New Zealand: Integrating Geology, Geophysics and Mechanical Observations -- Transpression Models and Ductile Deformation of the Lower Crust of the Pacific Plate in the Central Southern Alps, a Perspective From Structural Geology -- Modeling Strain and Anisotropy Along the Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand -- SECTION IV: Comparisons.

A Comparison Between the Transpressional Plate Boundaries of South Island, New Zealand, and Southern California, USA: The Alpine and San Andreas Fault Systems -- Taiwan and South Island, New Zealand: A Comparison of Continental Collisional Orogenies -- Seismogenic, Electrically Conductive, and Fluid Zones at Continental Plate Boundaries in New Zealand, Himalaya, and California, USA.