Left-lateral sense offset of Upper Proterozoic to Paleozoic features across the Gobi Onon, Tost, and Zuunbayan faults in southern Mongolia and implications for other central Asian faults

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 183-194

  Lamb, Melissa A ^a   Hanson, Andrew D ^b   Graham, Stephan A ^a   Badarch, Gombosuren ^c   Webb, Laura E ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Texaco Inc Bellaire   (United States)

^c Mongolian Acad Sci 63 Peace A   (Mongolia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Deformation; Left lateral faults; Mesozoic; Mongolia

Indexed keywords

FAULT DISPLACEMENT; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 0033619611     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00227-7     Document Type: Article

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