Relative motion across the eastern Tibetan plateau: Contributions from faulting, internal strain and rotation rates

Tectonophysics

Volumn 584, Issue , 2013, Pages 240-256

  Zhang, Zhuqi ^a   McCaffrey, Robert ^b   Zhang, Peizhen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Block model; Eastern Tibet; Faulting; Internal strain; Relative motion; Rotation

Indexed keywords

BLOCK MODELS; EASTERN TIBET; EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU; ELASTIC-PLASTIC; EURASIAN PLATES; FAULT-SLIP RATES; FIRST ORDER; INTERNAL STRAINS; KINEMATIC MODEL; LOW RATES; PERMANENT STRAIN; RELATIVE MOTION; RELATIVE VELOCITY; ROTATION RATE; SLIP RATES; SLIP VECTORS; SOUTH CHINA; STRAIN LOCALIZATIONS; SURFACE DEFORMATION; THAILAND;

DEFORMATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FAULT SLIPS; FAULTING; KINEMATICS; ROTATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

STRAIN RATE;

BLOCK ROTATION; COMPRESSION; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FAULT SLIP; FAULTING; GPS; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLASTICITY; SLIP RATE; STRAIN;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84872389580     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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