Asymmetric flank uplift of the Yinchuan graben, north central China: Implications for lateral variation of crustal rheology from the Alashan to the Ordos

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 1-4

  He, Jiankun ^a   Li, Yanxing ^b   Teng, Chunkai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RHEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VISCOELASTICITY;

CRUSTAL RHEOLOGY; INTENSE ACTIVE ZONE; PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA; SEISMICITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GRABEN; RHEOLOGY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 31544454128     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023661     Document Type: Article

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