Nailing down the slip rate of the Altyn Tagh fault

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 5382-5386

  He, Jiankun ^a   Vernant, Philippe ^b   Chéry, Jean ^b   Wang, Weimin ^a   Lu, Shuangjiang ^a   Ku, Wenfei ^c   Xia, Wenhai ^d   Bilham, Roger ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Altyn Tagh Fault; GPS; slip rate; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ALTYN TAGH FAULT; DENSE GPS ARRAY; FAULT-SLIP RATES; GEOLOGIC SLIP RATES; SLIP RATES; TERRACE MORPHOLOGY; TIBET; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

ESTIMATION; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

FAULT SLIPS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; GEODETIC NETWORK; GEOMETRY; GPS; SLIP RATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TERRACE;

ALTYN TAGH FAULT ZONE; CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 84885979067     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL057497     Document Type: Article

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