Flexural fold structures and active faults in the northern-western Weihe Graben, central China

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 114, Issue , 2015, Pages 226-241

  Lin, Aiming ^a   Rao, Gang ^a,b   Yan, Bing ^a,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active normal fault; Flexural fold; Listric fault model; Ordos Block; Strike slip fault; Weihe Graben

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; FAULTING; FOLD; GRABEN; NORMAL FAULT; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

CHINA;

EID: 84938805983     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.04.012     Document Type: Article

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