The Pingding segment of the Altyn Tagh Fault (91°E): Holocene slip-rate determination from cosmogenic radionuclide dating of offset fluvial terraces

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Meriaux A S ^a   Van Der Woerd, J ^b   Tapponnier, P ^c,d   Ryerson, F J ^e   Finkel, R C ^f   Lasserre, C ^g   Xu, X ^h  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^h Earthquake Administration of Beijing Municipality   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; SLIP RATE; TERRACE;

ALTYN TAGH FAULT ZONE; CHINA;

TURA;

EID: 84867021008     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009289     Document Type: Article

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