Constant slip rate during the late Quaternary along the Sulu He segment of the Altyn Tagh Fault near Changma, Gansu, China

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Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-106

  Seong, Yeong Bae ^a   Kang, Hee Cheol ^b   Ree, Jin Han ^a   Yi, Chaolu ^c   Yoon, Hyeon ^d  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Altyn Tagh Fault; Cosmogenic 10Be dating; Displacement; Slip rate

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PIEDMONT; QUATERNARY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SLIP RATE;

ALTYN TAGH FAULT ZONE; CHINA; GANSU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79951995411     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: 14401738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2010.00743.x     Document Type: Article

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