Active tectonics of the Beichuan and Pengguan faults at the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Densmore, Alexander L ^a   Ellis, Michael A ^b   Li, Yong ^c   Zhou, Rongjun ^d   Hancock, Gregory S ^e   Richardson, Nicholas ^f  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Seismological Bureau of Sichuan Province   (China)

^e The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BASIN EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DISPLACEMENT; FOLDING; FORELAND BASIN; HOLOCENE; KINEMATICS; PLEISTOCENE; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPPER CRUST;

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

EID: 36248949635     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006TC001987     Document Type: Article

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