Crustal deformation along the Longmen-Shan fault zone and its implications for seismogenesis

Tectonophysics

Volumn 610, Issue , 2014, Pages 128-137

  Wang, Zhi ^a   Huang, Runqiu ^b   Pei, Shunping ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Continental colliding; Crustal channel flow; Crustal deformation; Longmen Shan fault zone; Seismogenesis

Indexed keywords

2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKES; CONTINENTAL COLLIDING; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; DEFORMATION MODELING; FAULT ZONE; SEISMOGENESIS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; VELOCITY;

DEFORMATION;

CHANNEL FLOW; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; PARTIAL MELTING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; THRUST FAULT;

CHINA; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; SICHUAN;

EID: 84890557853     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2013.11.004     Document Type: Article

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