Late Quaternary slip-rate on the Altun Fault west to the Qarqan River

Dizhen Dizhi

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 200-208

  Wang, Feng ^a   Xu, Xi Wei ^b   Zheng, Rong Zhang ^b   Chen, Wen Bin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Altun Fault zone; Offset landform; Slip rates; Strike slip fault

Indexed keywords

NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; RIVER TERRACE; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

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

EID: 5044232155     PISSN: 02534967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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