Pliocene-Quaternary faulting pattern and left-slip propagation tectonics in North China

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Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 84-88

  Yueqiao, Zhang ^a   Vergély, Pierre ^b   Mercier, Jacques Louis ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

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