Is the North Altyn fault part of a strike-slip duplex along the Altyn Tagh fault system?

Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 255-258

  Cowgill, E ^a   Yin, A ^a   Feng, W X ^a   Qing, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Altyn Tagh; Slip; Tibetan plateau; Transpression

Indexed keywords

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; ALTYN TAGH; ALTYN TAGH FAULT SYSTEM; SLIP; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TRANSPRESSION; TRANSPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION;

FAULT SLIPS;

DEFORMATION; DUPLEX; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

CHINA; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0034432417     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<255:ITNAFP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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