Deformation on the northern of the Tibetan Plateau from GPS measurement and geologic rates of late Quaternary along the major fault

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2491-2508

  Zheng, Wen Jun ^a,b   Zhang, Pei Zhen ^a   Yuan, Dao Yang ^b   Zheng, De Wen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary fault; Continuous deformation; GPS measurements; Late Quaternary slip rate; The northern margin of Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; FAULT SLIP; GPS; KINEMATICS; QUATERNARY; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ALTYN TAGH FAULT ZONE; CHINA; HAIYUAN; LIUPAN MOUNTAINS; NINGXIA HUIZU; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 76749101912     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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