Crustal structure across the Altyn Tagh Range at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau and tectonic implications

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 241, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 804-814

  Zhao, Jungmeng ^a,b   Mooney, Walter D ^c   Zhang, Xiankang ^d   Li, Zhichun ^e   Jin, Zhijun ^f   Okaya, Nihal ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e Laboring Hygiene of Hunan Province   (China)

^f CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

Altyn Tagh Range; Deformation processes; Lower crustal flow creep; Qaidam basin; Seismic and compositional structure of the crust and uppermost mantle; Tarim basin; Viscous sheet model

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION PROCESSES; VISCOUS SHEET MODEL;

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY;

TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALTYN TAGH FAULT ZONE; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 30744442157     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.003     Document Type: Article

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