Cooper, Patricia Ann2021-09-132021-09-131985http://hdl.handle.net/10125/76138The Papua New Guinea-Solomon Islands region is a major component of the Western Melanesian Borderlands, the convergent boundary between the northward-moving Inda-Australian Plate and the westwardmoving Pacific Plate (Figure 1.1). The region represents a wSeismologyGeology, StructuralSeismology--Papua New Guinea.Seismology--Solomon Islands.Geology, Structural.Seismicity, focal mechanisms and morphology of subducted lithosphere in the Papua New Guinea-Solomon Islands regionThesis