Late Pleistocene slip rate of the Höh Serh-Tsagaan Salaa fault system, Mongolian Altai and intracontinental deformation in central Asia

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1134-1150

  Frankel, Kurt L ^a   Wegmann, Karl W ^b   Bayasgalan, Amgalan ^c   Carson, Robert J ^d   Bader, Nicholas E ^d   Adiya, Tsolmon ^c   Bolor, Erdenebat ^c   Durfey, Chelsea C ^d   Otgonkhuu, Jargal ^c   Sprajcar, Jodi ^e   Sweeney, Kristin E ^f   Walker, Richard T ^g   Marstellar, Tina L ^a   Gregory, Laura ^g  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MONGOLIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^d WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^e 931 College Mall   (United States)

^f CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asia; Continental neotectonics; Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Geomorphology; Intra plate processes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ASIA; CENTRAL ASIA; CONTINENTAL NEOTECTONICS; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; DIFFERENTIAL GPS; DISCRETE STRUCTURE; FAR-FIELD EFFECT; FAULT STRANDS; FAULT SYSTEM; FAULT ZONE; INTRA-PLATE PROCESSES; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LONG-TERM DEFORMATION; MONGOLIA; SLIP RATES; SLIP VECTORS; STRAIN ACCUMULATIONS; STRAIN FIELDS; TECTONIC SETTINGS;

DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HOLMIUM; LANDFORMS; OPTIMIZATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

DYNAMICS;

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GPS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; NEOTECTONICS; OBLIQUE FAULT; OROGENY; PLEISTOCENE; SLIP RATE; STRAIN RATE; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; CENTRAL ASIA; MONGOLIA;

EID: 78449252083     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04826.x     Document Type: Article

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