Uniform slip-rate along the Kunlun Fault: Implications for seismic behaviour and large-scale tectonics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2353-2356

  Van Der Woerd, J ^a   Ryerson, F J ^a   Tapponnier, P ^a   Meriaux, A S ^a   Gaudemer, Y ^a   Meyer, B ^a   Finkel, R C ^a   Caffee, M W ^a   Zhao, G ^a   Xu, Z ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; TECTONICS; FAULTING; VELOCITY;

CONTINENTAL FAULTS; LITHOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERIC VELOCITY FIELD;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; FAULT SLIPS;

FAULT SLIP; SEISMOTECTONICS;

CHINA; KUNLUN FAULT; TIBET;

CHARACTERISTIC SLIP; CRUSTAL VELOCITY; FIRST ORDER; KUNLUN FAULT; SEISMIC BEHAVIOUR; SLIP RATES;

EID: 0034352643     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011292     Document Type: Article

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