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Impact of riser reconstructions on estimation of secular variation in rates of strike-slip faulting: Revisiting the Cherchen River site along the Altyn Tagh Fault, NW China
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In this article, the authors examine the methods used to derive slip rates from reconstructions of displaced fluvial risers, and show that such rates are subject to potentially important uncertainties that have largely been overlooked.About:
This article is published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.The article was published on 2007-02-28. It has received 241 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Slip (materials science) & Strike-slip tectonics.read more
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Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Asia: A preliminary synthesis
TL;DR: In the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and Turkey-Iranian-Caucasus orogen as mentioned in this paper, the early stages of the orogenic deformation were characterized by shortening in the early stage followed by strike-slip faulting and extension in the late stage.
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Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Qaidam basin and its surrounding regions (Part 3): Structural geology, sedimentation, and regional tectonic reconstruction
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed regional seismic-reflection profiles across the Qaidam basin and a series of thickness distribution patterns of Cenozoic strata at different time slices.
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Active structures of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and their relationships to earthquake distribution, contemporary strain field, and Cenozoic volcanism
Michael H. Taylor,An Yin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a web-based digital map of active structures in the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and its immediate surrounding regions based on satellite images and digital topographic data.
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Microplate model for the present-day deformation of Tibet
TL;DR: In this article, site velocities from 349 Global Positioning System (GPS) stations are used to construct an 11-element quasi-rigid block model of the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings.
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Slip rate gradients along the eastern Kunlun fault
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present new slip rate determinations using millennial-scale geomorphic markers from sites along the easternmost segment of the Kunlun fault in north central Tibet.
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Continuous deformation of the Tibetan Plateau from global positioning system data
Peizhen Zhang,Zheng-Kang Shen,Min Wang,Weijun Gan,Roland Bürgmann,Peter Molnar,Qi Wang,Zhijun Niu,Jianzhong Sun,Jianchun Wu,Sun Hanrong,You Xinzhao +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, the present-day tectonics in the Tibetan Plateau is best described as deformation of a continuous medium, at least when averaged over distances of.;100 km.
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A thin viscous sheet model for continental deformation
Philip England,Dan McKenzie +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the deformation of a thin sheet of power law material overlying an inviscid substrate under the assumption that vertical gradients of the horizontal velocity are negligible.
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Slip-line field theory and large-scale continental tectonics
Paul Tapponnier,Peter Molnar +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple analogy is made between the tectonics of Asia and deformation in a rigidly indented rigid-plastic solid, where India is analogous to the indenter and the great strike-slip faults correspond to slip lines.
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Active thrusting and folding along the northern Tien Shan and Late Cenozoic rotation of the Tarim relative to Dzungaria and Kazakhstan
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied geometries and rates of late Cenozoic thrust faulting and folding along the northern piedmont of the Tien Shan mountain belt, where the M=8.3 Manas earthquake occurred on December 23, 1906.
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Plate tectonics of the Mediterranean region.
TL;DR: The seismicity and fault plane solutions in the Mediterranean area show that two small rapidly moving plates exist in the Eastern Mediterranean, and such plates may be a common feature of contracting ocean basins.
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