Applications of morphochronology to the active tectonics of Tibet

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 415, Issue , 2006, Pages 61-86

  Ryerson, Frederick J ^a   Tapponnier, Paul ^b   Finkel, Robert C ^a   Mériaux, Anne Sophie ^a   Van Der Woerd, Jérôme ^c   Lasserre, Cécile ^d   Chevalier, Marie Luce ^a,b   Xu, Xi Wei ^e   Li, Hai Bing ^e   King, Geoffrey C P ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Active faults; Continental deformation; Cosmogenic nuclides; Deformation; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEODESY; ISOTOPES; LITHOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ACTIVE FAULT; CONTINENTAL DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; DISTRIBUTED DEFORMATION; HOMOGENEOUS DEFORMATION; LATE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

FAULT SLIPS;

CLIMATE; COLLISION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONVERGENCE; DATA SET; DEFORMATION; EROSION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LINEARITY; LITHOSPHERE; MOUNTAIN; RADIOCARBON DATING; SLIP RATE; TECTONICS; THRUST FAULT;

ALTUN MOUNTAINS; CHINA; HIMALAYAS; KARAKORAM; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 72849138421     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2415(05)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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