Miocene to present kinematics of fault-bend folding across the Huerguosi anticline, northern Tianshan (China), derived from structural, seismic, and magnetostratigraphic data

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 871-874

  Charreau, Julien ^a   Avouac, Jean Philippe ^a   Chen, Yan ^b   Dominguez, Stéphane ^c   Gilder, Stuart ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UMR 7327   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIP ANGLE; FOLDING MECHANISM; GEOMETRIC MODELING; GROWTH STRATA; LEAST SQUARE; MIOCENE; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SEISMIC IMAGING; STRUCTURAL MEASUREMENTS; TIANSHAN;

SEISMOLOGY;

SEDIMENTATION;

ANTICLINE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FOLDING; KINEMATICS; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEISMIC DATA;

ASIA; EURASIA; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 69649083243     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25073A.1     Document Type: Article

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