Right-lateral shear across Iran and kinematic change in the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 555-574

  Allen, Mark B ^a   Kheirkhah, Monireh ^b   Emami, Mohammad H ^b   Jones, Stuart J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Asia; Continental neotectonics; Continental tectonics: strike slip and transform; Tectonics and landscape evolution

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ASIA; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS: STRIKE-SLIP AND TRANSFORM; DIGITAL TOPOGRAPHY; EASTERN SIDE; EURASIA; EURASIA PLATE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT STRIKE; GEOMORPHIC EVIDENCE; HOLOCENES; INDIAN PLATE; KINEMATIC REGIME; LATERAL SHEAR; NEOTECTONICS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLIOCENE; SLIP RATES; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TURKISHS; VELOCITY FIELD; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION;

KINEMATICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

TECTONICS;

ARABIAN PLATE; COLLISION ZONE; EURASIAN PLATE; KINEMATICS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NEOTECTONICS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ASIA;

EID: 78751522968     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04874.x     Document Type: Article

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