Earthquake depth distributions in central Asia, and their relations with lithosphere thickness, shortening and extension

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-29

  Sloan, R A ^a   Jackson, J A ^a   Mckenzie, D ^a   Priestley, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asia; Continental neotectonics; Continental tectonics: compressional; Continental tectonics: extensional; Earthquake source observations; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

ASIA; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS: COMPRESSIONAL; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS: EXTENSIONAL; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; NEOTECTONICS; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES; ELASTICITY; LANDFORMS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

TECTONICS;

ACTIVE MARGIN; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FORELAND BASIN; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOWER CRUST; NEOTECTONICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TECTONIC SETTING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; CHINA; LAPTEV SEA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 79952741366     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04882.x     Document Type: Article

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