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Member Since 2004
Virginia Toy
Professor, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Member, Tectonophysics Jason Morgan Early Career Award Committee
Professional Experience
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Professor
2019 - Present
University of Otago
Lecturer... Associate Professor
2009 - 2019
Education
Doctorate
2008
Publications
Seismic Anisotropy and Its Impact on Imaging the Shallow Alpine Fault: An Experimental and Modeling ...
The transpressional Alpine Fault in New Zealand has created a thick shear zone with associated highly anisotropic rocks. Low seismic velocity zones...
July 30, 2020
Complex Conductivity of Graphitic Schists and Sandstones
August 22, 2019
Introduction to “Orogenic Cycles: From Field Observations to...
January 25, 2019
The Alpine Fault Hangingwall Viewed From Within: Structural ...
August 17, 2018
Petrophysical, Geochemical, and Hydrological Evidence for Ex...
December 29, 2017
AGU Abstracts
Variations in crustal strength along the New Zealand plate boundary inferred from recrystallized grain size and CPO of quartz mylonites.
INITIATION, EVOLUTION, STRUCTURE, AND DYNAMICS OF TRANSFORM FAULT ZONES AND THEIR COMPLEX TECTONICS III POSTER
tectonophysics | 17 december 2021
Lucan Mameri, Jhardel Dasent, Steven B. Kidder, Ja...
Recent extrapolations of quartzite strength in laboratory experiments and their crystallographic preferred orientations (CPO) suggested that different...
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Extreme geothermal gradients at active plate boundaries
FALL MEETING 2018
10 december 2018
Rupert Sutherland, John Townend, Virginia Toy
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Reconciling experimental and static-dynamic numerical estimations of seismic anisotropy in Alpine Fault mylonites
RECONCILING EXPERIMENTAL AND STATIC-DYNAMIC NUMERICAL ESTIMATIONS OF SEISMIC ANISOTROPY IN ALPINE FAULT MYLONITES
seismology | 15 december 2017
Ludmila Adam, Carolyn J. Boulton, Marcel Frehner, ...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2025
Member
Tectonophysics Jason Morgan Early Career Award Committee
2016 - 2017
Associate Editor
Tectonics
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