Conjugate strike-up faulting along the Bangong-Nujiang suture zone accomodates coeval east-west extension and north-south shortening in the interior of the Tibetian Plateau

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Taylor, Michael ^a   Yin, An ^a   Ryerson, Frederick J ^b   Kapp, Paul ^a,c   Ding, Lin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Conjugate strike slip faults; Extrusion tectonics; Neotectonics; Tibet

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; KINEMATICS; PLATEAU; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONOPHYSICS;

CHINA;

EID: 0142016385     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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