Three-dimensional mechanical modeling of the GPS velocity field around the northeastern Tibetan plateau and surrounding regions

Tectonophysics

Volumn 584, Issue , 2013, Pages 257-266

  He, Jiankun ^a   Lu, Shuangjiang ^a   Wang, Weimin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; GPS; Mechanical modeling; Northeastern Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

3D FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; ACTIVE FAULT; ACTIVE TECTONICS; CRUSTAL RHEOLOGY; FAULT FRICTION; FAULT MECHANISM; FAULT SYSTEM; FRICTION ZONE; GPS VELOCITY FIELD; LONG-TERM DEFORMATION; LOWER CRUST; MECHANICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; QILIAN SHAN; RIGID BLOCK; SLIP RATES; SURROUNDING REGIONS; TECTONIC REGIONS; TEST MODELS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HULLS (SHIP); RHEOLOGY; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRIBOLOGY; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

FAULT SLIPS;

COULOMB CRITERION; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GPS; PLATEAU; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY;

CHINA; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84872373234     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.03.025     Document Type: Article

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