Reconciliation of the Early Slip History of the Altyn Tagh Fault, Northern Tibetan

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ABSTRACT

Whether the Altyn Tagh fault (ATF) had been extended beyond its current northeastern tip and linked with strike-slip faults in East Asia is a key to understanding the timing and mechanisms of crustal deformation in the northern Tibetan Plateau. We present Late Cretaceous dextral movement affected by Okhotomorsk Block-East Asia collision and a larger sinistral offset since Late Eocene along the ATF based on the provenance analysis of western Jiuxi Basin. Moreover, currently available estimates of offset based on displaced Paleozoic and Jurassic rocks could not represent the maximum offset due to late Cretaceous dextral offset.

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Lv, F. , Ran, B. , Wang, C. , Zhu, L. , Wang, Z. and Han, Y. (2019) Reconciliation of the Early Slip History of the Altyn Tagh Fault, Northern Tibetan. Open Journal of Geology, 9, 677-679. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2019.910073.

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