Eastward expansion of the Tibetan Plateau by crustal flow and strain partitioning across faults

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 361-365

  Liu, Qi Yuan ^a   Van Der Hilst, Robert D ^b   Li, Yu ^a   Yao, Hua Jian ^c   Chen, Jiu Hui ^a   Guo, Biao ^a   Qi, Shao Hua ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Huang, Hui ^b   Li, Shun Cheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; DEFORMATION; FAULT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOGRAPH;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84899667781     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2130     Document Type: Article

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