Active faults and magnitudes of left-lateral displacement along the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Tectonophysics

Volumn 380, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 243-260

  Ding, Guoyu ^a,b   Chen, Jie ^b   Tian, Qinjian ^a   Shen, Xuhui ^a   Xing, Chengqi ^a   Wei, Kaibo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Active faults; Altyn Tagh fault; Drainage offset and deflection; Magnitude of left lateral displacement; Northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; TECTONOPHYSICS; TRANSPRESSION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 1642382852     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2003.09.022     Document Type: Article

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