Virginia Toy
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Virginia Gail Toy (born 1979) is a New Zealand geologist who studies fault zones and earthquakes in New Zealand, Japan and Ecuador.[1] She is one of the leaders of the Deep Fault Drilling Project of New Zealand's Alpine Fault,[2] and was a research scientist on the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project.[3][4] She then worked as a research associate professor in geology and associate dean (international) in the Division of Sciences at the University of Otago.[5] Toy currently works as a Professor at the University of Mainz.[6]
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Born | Virginia Gail Toy 1979 Auckland, New Zealand |
Nationality | New Zealander |
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Fields | Structural Geology |
Institutions | University of Mainz |
Thesis | Rheology of the Alpine Fault Mylonite Zone: deformation processes at and below the base of the seismogenic zone in a major plate boundary structure (2008) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Norris, Alan Cooper, Richard H. Sibson |
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