The Southern Alps is a relatively young orogeny that is created by continental collision. This deformation process results in a relatively narrow deformation zone including mountain uplift. The SAGENZ project was established to measure the uplift across a profile of the Southern Alps while the COD project attempts to measure variations in crustal strain in a region shown to have episodic faulting.
Southern Alps geodetic experiment (SAGENZ)
The distribution and magnitude of uplift of the Southern Alps.
Find out more about the SAGENZ.
Central Otago Deformation (COD)
An assessment of seismic risk using GNSS measured strain across Central Otago.