气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Magnitude of late quaternary left-lateral displacements along the north edge of Tibet

CCPortal

DOI	10.1126/science.246.4935.1285
	Magnitude of late quaternary left-lateral displacements along the north edge of Tibet
	Peltzer G.; Tapponnier P.; Armijo R.
发表日期	1989
ISSN	0036-8075
起始页码	1285
结束页码	1289
卷号	246 期号:4935
英文摘要	Images taken by the earth observation satellite SPOT of the Quaternary morphology at 18 sites on the 2000-kilometer-long Altyn Tagh fault at the north edge of Tibet demonstrate that it is outstandingly active. Long-term, left-lateral strike-slip offsets of stream channels, alluvial terrace edges, and glacial moraines along the fault cluster between 100 and 400 meters. The high elevation of the sites, mostly above 4000 meters in the periglacial zone, suggests that most offsets resulted from slip on the fault since the beginning of the Holocene. These data imply that slip rates are 2 to 3 centimeters per year along much of the fault length and support the hypothesis that the continuing penetration of India into Asia forces Tibet rapidly toward the east.
英文关键词	active fault; frost heave; frozen ground; Late Quaternary; left-lateral displacement; slip rate; SPOT; strike-slip offset; surface melting; thermomolecular pressure; China, Tibet, Altyn Tagh fault
语种	英语
来源期刊	Science
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/245032
作者单位	Laboratoire de Tectonique, Méanique de la Lithosphère, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, 4, place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, Cedex 05, France; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Peltzer G.,Tapponnier P.,Armijo R.. Magnitude of late quaternary left-lateral displacements along the north edge of Tibet[J],1989,246(4935).
APA	Peltzer G.,Tapponnier P.,&Armijo R..(1989).Magnitude of late quaternary left-lateral displacements along the north edge of Tibet.Science,246(4935).
MLA	Peltzer G.,et al."Magnitude of late quaternary left-lateral displacements along the north edge of Tibet".Science 246.4935(1989).