How can geological datasets help us to choose between rheological behaviours suggested by experimental measurements? Examples from the Alpine Fault and the Japan Trench.

Virginia Toy1, Carolyn J Boulton2, Genevieve L Coffey1, Paul H Denys3 and Robert McCaffrey4, (1)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, (2)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, (3)University of Otago, National School of Surveying, Dunedin, New Zealand, (4)Portland State University, Department of Geology, Portland, OR, United States