Geological evidence against large-scale pre-Holocene offsets along the Karakoram Fault: Implications for the limited extrusion of the Tibetan plateau

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 171-186

  Searle, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EXTRUSION; FAULT SLIP; IDENTATION; STRIKE SLIP FAULT;

CHINA, TIBET, TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0029729991     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95TC01693     Document Type: Article

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