Cenozoic right-slip faulting along the eastern margin of the Pamir salient, northwestern China

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 145-161

  Cowgill, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; EARLY MIOCENE; FAULT SYSTEM; FIELD MAPPING; LATE CENOZOIC; LATE EOCENE; LEADING EDGE; LONG REACH; MESOSCALE STRUCTURE; NORTHWESTERN CHINA; ORDER STRUCTURE; OVERTHRUST; SLIP RATES; SLIP TRANSFER; STRUCTURAL MEASUREMENTS; STUDY AREAS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TIBETANS; TRANSFER SYSTEMS; TRANSPRESSION; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION;

DEFORMATION; ROTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

DATA TRANSFER RATES;

CENOZOIC; DEFORMATION; FAULTING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC ROTATION; TRANSPRESSION;

CHINA; PAMIRS;

NES;

EID: 77950206773     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26520.1     Document Type: Article

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