Late Quaternary activity and dextral strike-slip movement on the Karakax Fault Zone, northwest Tibet

Tectonophysics

Volumn 453, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 44-62

  Lin, Aiming ^a   Kano, Ken ichi ^a   Guo, Jianming ^a   Maruyama, Tadashi ^a,b  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Altyn Tagh Fault; Foliated cataclastic rocks; Karakax Fault Zone; right lateral strike slip; S C fabrics; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; CATACLASITE; EURASIAN PLATE; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT SCARP; FAULT ZONE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GULLY; INDIAN PLATE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; QUATERNARY; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

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

EID: 44649093338     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.04.013     Document Type: Article

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