Major fault zones around the Tibetan Plateau showing location of the Altyn Tagh Fault
The Altyn Tagh Fault (ATF) is a 2,000 km long,[1][2] active, sinistral (left lateral) strike-slip fault that forms the northwestern boundary of the Tibetan Plateau with the Tarim Basin. It is one of the major sinistral strike-slip structures that together help to accommodate the eastward motion of this zone of thickened crust, relative to the Eurasian Plate. A total displacement of about ~475 km has been estimated for this fault zone since the middle Oligocene,[3][4][5] although the amount of displacement, age of initiation and slip rate are disputed.
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strike slip faults in the area could be involved too, whereas subduction of the Tarim Basin beneath the Kunlun is unlikely. The AltynTaghfault crosses the...
because of a simultaneous component of shortening perpendicular to the fault plane. This movement ends up resulting in oblique shear. It is generally...
is explained as either lateral escape to the east along the AltynTagh and Karakorum faults in the microplate model or as the effect of the rigid Tarim...
The basin's continuing formation and evolution is controlled by the AltynTaghfault constituting the northern basin boundary. The basin's large mineral...
spreading of the plateau, that also includes the AltynTaghFault, Kunlun Fault and the Xianshuihe fault system. It is characterized by left-lateral strike-slip...
Qing Z, Xian-Qiang Z, Xiao-Feng W, Hanson A. Tectonic history of the AltynTaghfault system in northern Tibet inferred from Cenozoic sedimentation. Geological...
component of left lateral strike-slip faulting on major west–east trending structures such as the Kunlun and AltynTaghfault systems that accommodate southeastward...
accommodated by the Xianshuihe fault system, Kunlun Fault, AltynTaghfault, and Longmenshan Fault. The presence of active faults in Sichuan makes the region...
T. J. Wright (26 June 2008). "InSAR slip rate determination on the AltynTaghFault, northern Tibet, in the presence of topographically correlated atmospheric...
Ruptures Associated with the 2014 Mw 6.9 Yutian Earthquake on the AltynTaghFault, Tibetan Plateau", Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America...
C. (2003), "Paleoseismology of the Xorxol segment of the central AltynTaghFault, Xinjiang, China" (PDF), Annals of Geophysics, 46 (5): 1015–1034 Burgmann...
motion along large structures including the AltynTaghFault, Kunlun Fault, Haiyuan Fault and Xianshuihe fault system. Left-lateral strike-slip motion squeezes...
motion along large structures including the AltynTaghFault, Kunlun Fault, Haiyuan Fault and Xianshuihe fault system. Left-lateral strike-slip motion squeezes...
motion along large structures including the AltynTaghFault, Kunlun Fault, Haiyuan Fault and Xianshuihe fault system. Left-lateral strike-slip motion squeezes...
through major faults and their splays along the plateau, such as the AltynTaghFault, Kunlun Fault, Haiyuan Fault, and Xianshuihe fault systems. Left-lateral...
left-lateral faulting. A great portion of strike-slip deformation is accommodated along the AltynTagh, Kunlun, Haiyuan and Xianshuihe fault systems. The...
motion along large structures including the AltynTaghFault, Kunlun Fault, Haiyuan Fault and Xianshuihe fault system. Left-lateral strike-slip motion squeezes...
motion along large structures including the AltynTaghFault, Kunlun Fault, Haiyuan Fault and Xianshuihe fault system. Left-lateral strike-slip motion squeezes...
by the Xianshuihe fault system, Haiyuan Fault, Kunlun Fault, AltynTaghfault, and Longmenshan Fault. The presence of active faults in Sichuan makes the...
intra-continental AltynTagh and Kunlun strike-slip fault systems. Several large historic events in the Qinghai Province have occurred on the Kunlun fault, which...
of the India–Asia collision. These faults, including the AltynTagh, Haiyuan, Kunlun, Karakoram and Xianshuihe faults, accommodate crustal deformation within...
accommodated by the Xianshuihe fault system, Kunlun Fault, AltynTaghfault, and Longmenshan Fault. The presence of active faults in Sichuan makes the region...
(left-lateral) strike-slip faults, including the AltynTagh, Haiyuan, Kunlun and Xianshuihe faults, combined with thrusting on the Longmenshan fault. The earthquake...
Basin. About halfway across the Tarim the bounding range becomes the Altyn-Tagh and the Kunluns, by convention, continue somewhat to the south. In the...
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