Late Cenozoic Xianshuihe-Xiaojiang, Red River, and Dali fault systems of Southwestern Sichuan and Central Yunnan, China

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 327, Issue , 1998, Pages 1-108

  Wang, E ^a   Burchfiel, B C ^a   Royden, L H ^a   Chen, Liangzhong ^a   Chen, Jishen ^a   Li, Wenxin ^a   Chen, Zhiliang ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; DEFORMATION; POLES; RIVERS; ROTATION;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CLOCKWISE ROTATION; COMPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL MATERIALS; LARGE DISPLACEMENTS; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; SMALL COMPONENTS; SMALL DISPLACEMENT;

FAULT SLIPS;

CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; GPS; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP RATE;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN; XIANSHUIHE FAULT ZONE;

EID: 0006195092     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2327-2.1     Document Type: Article

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