Combined model of rigid-block motion with continuous deformation: Patterns of present-day deformation in continental China

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 444, Issue , 2008, Pages 59-71

  Zhang, P Zh ^a   Gan, Weiiun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Continental dynamics; Continuous deformation; GPS measurements; Rigid block movement

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; LITHOLOGY; RIGIDITY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINUOUS DEFORMATIONS; GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GPS MEASUREMENTS; INTERNAL DEFORMATION; KINEMATICAL CONSTRAINTS; RIGID BLOCK; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS;

DEFORMATION;

ACTIVE FAULT; BLOCK ROTATION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GPS; KINEMATICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOWER CRUST; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; RIGIDITY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THEORETICAL STUDY; UPPER MANTLE;

CHINA;

EID: 75249104929     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2444(04)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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