Inherited strike-slip faults as an origin for basement-cored uplifts: Example of the Kungey and Zailiskey ranges, northern Tian Shan

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Selander, Jacob ^a   Oskin, Michael ^a   Ormukov, Cholponbek ^b   Abdrakhmatov, Kanatbek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Kyrgyz National Academy of Sciences   (Kyrgyzstan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

CHRONOSEQUENCES; CO-LOCATED; COSMOGENIC; CROSS SECTION; DIP-SLIP FAULTS; LATE MIOCENE; LATE QUATERNARY; NEO GENES; PALEOZOIC; PARTITIONED SYSTEMS; QUATERNARY EVOLUTION; REVERSE FAULTS; RIVER TERRACES; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP RATES;

BUILDINGS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; REVERSE FAULT; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TERRACE; UNCONFORMITY; UPLIFT;

KUNGEY ALATAU; TIEN SHAN; ZAILIYSKIY ALATAU;

EID: 84865790520     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC003002     Document Type: Article

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