Seismotectonic range-front segmentation and mountain-belt growth in the Pamir-Alai region, Kyrgyzstan (India-Eurasia collision zone)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1665-1683

  Arrowsmith, J R ^a   Strecke, M R ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

COLLISION ZONE; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION; MOUNTAIN BELTS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEISMOTECTONICS; TECTONIC ACTIVITY; THRUST FAULTS; TRANSFER FAULTS;

FAULTING;

DEFORMATION; HIMALAYAN OROGENY; SEGMENTATION; SEISMICITY; TECTONICS;

KYRGYZSTAN; PAMIR;

EID: 0033390052     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1665:SRFSAM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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