Active faults and magnitudes of left-lateral displacement along the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Ding, Guoqiang; Chen, Jie; Qinjian, Tian; Shen, Xuhui; Xing, Chengqi; Wei, Kaibo

doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2003.09.022

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“…The area is dominated by a series of ranges and intermontane basins, with uplift having occurred during the late Cretaceous and again in the late Cenozoic, associated with the northward progression of the Tibetan Plateau (Tapponnier et al 2001;Wang et al 2013). Zhang et al (1991) originally advanced the view that Cenozoic uplift in the area did not occur until the Pliocene, but this claim has been revised, and it is now recognised that the uplift history of the area extends back to the Miocene (Song et al 2001;Ding et al 2004;Zheng et al 2006;Zhang et al 2006;Lin et al 2009Lin et al , 2010Lin et al , 2011.…”

Section: Geological and Geographical Setting Of The Sikouzi Successionmentioning

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On the timing and forcing mechanism of a mid-Miocene arid climate transition at the NE margins of the Tibetan Plateau: stratigraphic and sedimentologic evidence from the Sikouzi Section

Lin

Wyrwoll

Chen

et al. 2015

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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On the timing and forcing mechanism of a mid-Miocene arid climate transition at the NE margins of the Tibetan Plateau: stratigraphic and sedimentologic evidence from the Sikouzi Section

Lin

Wyrwoll

Chen

et al. 2015

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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“…In contrast, Gaudemer et al (1995) estimated an offset of 95 km with a much older initiation age of 10 Ma, but which also suggests a slip rate of c. 10 mm a À1 . Ding et al (2004) estimated the total amount of sinistral strike-slip offset along the Haiyuan Fault zone since the late Miocene as c. 60 km, summing the offsets of three classes of pull-apart basins developed during different periods, giving an average rate of 6.5 mm a À1 .…”

Section: Haiyuan Faultmentioning

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Crustal–lithospheric structure and continental extrusion of Tibet

Searle

Elliott

Phillips

et al. 2011

JGS

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Crustal shortening and thickening to c. 70-85 km in the Tibetan Plateau occurred both before and mainly after the c. 50 Ma India-Asia collision. Potassic-ultrapotassic shoshonitic and adakitic lavas erupted across the Qiangtang (c. 50-29 Ma) and Lhasa blocks (c. 30-10 Ma) indicate a hot mantle, thick crust and eclogitic root during that period. The progressive northward underthrusting of cold, Indian mantle lithosphere since collision shut off the source in the Lhasa block at c. 10 Ma. Late Miocene-Pleistocene shoshonitic volcanic rocks in northern Tibet require hot mantle. We review the major tectonic processes proposed for Tibet including 'rigid-block', continuum and crustal flow as well as the geological history of the major strikeslip faults. We examine controversies concerning the cumulative geological offsets and the discrepancies between geological, Quaternary and geodetic slip rates. Low present-day slip rates measured from global positioning system and InSAR along the Karakoram and Altyn Tagh Faults in addition to slow long-term geological rates can only account for limited eastward extrusion of Tibet since Mid-Miocene time. We conclude that despite being prominent geomorphological features sometimes with wide mylonite zones, the faults cut earlier formed metamorphic and igneous rocks and show limited offsets. Concentrated strain at the surface is dissipated deeper into wide ductile shear zones.

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“…Based on geologic mapping along a 60-km stretch of the fault, Burchfiel et al (1991) derived a total displacement of only 10.5-15.5 km and inferred that the leftlateral slip began near the end of Pliocene time (1.8 ‫ע‬ 0.3 Ma). Ding et al (2004) used the development of pullapart basins along the fault to argue for a total offset of ϳ60 km since 10 Ma.…”

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Millennial Recurrence of Large Earthquakes on the Haiyuan Fault near Songshan, Gansu Province, China

Liu‐Zeng¹,

Klinger²,

Xu³

et al. 2007

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

106

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The Haiyuan fault is a major active left-lateral fault along the northeast edge of the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau. Studying this fault is important in understanding current deformation of the plateau and the mechanics of continental deformation in general. Previous studies have mostly focused on the slip rate of the fault. Paleoseismic investigations on the fault are sparse, and have been targeted mostly at the stretch of the fault that ruptured in the 1920 M ϳ8.6 earthquake in Ningxia Province.

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Active faults and magnitudes of left-lateral displacement along the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Cited by 68 publications

References 31 publications

On the timing and forcing mechanism of a mid-Miocene arid climate transition at the NE margins of the Tibetan Plateau: stratigraphic and sedimentologic evidence from the Sikouzi Section

On the timing and forcing mechanism of a mid-Miocene arid climate transition at the NE margins of the Tibetan Plateau: stratigraphic and sedimentologic evidence from the Sikouzi Section

Crustal–lithospheric structure and continental extrusion of Tibet

Millennial Recurrence of Large Earthquakes on the Haiyuan Fault near Songshan, Gansu Province, China

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