Normal faulting from simple shear rifting in South Tibet, using evidence from passive seismic profiling across the Yadong-Gulu Rift

Tectonophysics

Volumn 606, Issue , 2013, Pages 178-186

  Zhang, Zhongjie ^a   Chen, Yun ^a   Yuan, Xiaohui ^b   Tian, Xiaobo ^a   Klemperer, Simon L ^c   Xu, Tao ^a   Bai, Zhiming ^a   Zhang, Hongshuang ^a   Wu, Jing ^a   Teng, Jiwen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Normal fault; Passive source seismic profiling; Simple shear rifting; South Tibet

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; INTERNATIONAL STUDIES; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NORMAL FAULTS; SEISMIC PROFILING; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SIMPLE SHEAR; SOUTH TIBET;

FAULTING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VELOCITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GPS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MOHO; NORMAL FAULT; PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFTING; S-WAVE; UPLIFT; UPPER CRUST; WAVE SPLITTING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG; YADONG;

EID: 84885299914     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2013.03.019     Document Type: Article

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