Late Quaternary and present-day rates of slip along the Altyn Tagh Fault, northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Zhang, Pei Zhen ^a   Molnar, Peter ^b   Xu, Xiwei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIP; GPS; QUATERNARY; SLIP RATE; TERRACE;

ALTYN TAGH FAULT ZONE; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 37549046786     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006TC002014     Document Type: Article

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