Syncollisional extension along the India-Asia suture zone, south-central Tibet: Implications for crustal deformation of Tibet

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 233-243

  Murphy, M A ^a   Sanchez, V ^a   Taylor, M H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

extension; Himalaya; Karakoram fault; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BANGONG-NUJIANG SUTURE; CONJUGATE FAULTS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; DISCRETE BOUNDARIES; DISPLACEMENT GRADIENTS; ENTIRE SYSTEM; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; FAULT PATTERNS; FAULT SYSTEM; FAULT-SLIP DATUM; GEOLOGIC MAPPING; GEOMORPHIC EXPRESSION; HIMALAYAS; KARAKORAM FAULT; LATE MIOCENE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; NEO GENES; NORMAL FAULTS; RIFT BASIN; RIFT GEOMETRY; SLIP DIRECTION; SOUTHERN TIBET; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL BOUNDARY; THRUST FAULTS; THRUST SYSTEMS; TIBETAN CRUST; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SEDIMENTATION;

TECTONICS;

ACTIVE FAULT; COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EN ECHELON STRUCTURE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT SLIP; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; NORMAL FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUTURE ZONE; THRUST FAULT;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; KARAKORAM FAULT ZONE; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 75149195210     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.11.046     Document Type: Article

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