Late Quaternary right-lateral slip rates of faults adjacent to the lake Qinghai, northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 2016-2030

  Yuan, Dao Yang ^a   Champagnac, Jean Daniel ^b,c   Ge, Wei Peng ^a   Molnar, Peter ^c   Zhang, Pei Zhen ^d   Zheng, Wen Jun ^d   Zhang, Hui Ping ^d   Liu, Xing Wang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; EURASIA; GEOLOGICAL CONTACT; KUNLUN FAULT; LATE CENOZOIC; LATE QUATERNARY; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; SLIP RATES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

DEFORMATION; LANDFORMS; LUMINESCENCE; TECTONICS;

LAKES;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; DEFORMATION; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TERRACE;

CHINA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI LAKE; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 80051592675     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30315.1     Document Type: Article

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