Crustal motion of Chinese mainland monitored by GPS

Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the South Ningxia region, northeastern Tibetan Plateau inferred from new structural investigations and fault kinematic analyses

“…This tectonic stress regime has dominated this region, and last to present time, coinciding with the focal solutions of earthquakes (IG and SBNHAP, 1990;He et al, 2003), GPS (Zhu et al, 2000;Wang et al, 2001;Zheng et al, 2013), and geostresses ( Pleistocene is no more than ca. 8 km, smaller than the 15.5 km deduced from the offset granite markers along the fault (Burchfiel et al, 1991), and evidently smaller than the 120 km suggested by Gaudemer et al (1995), likely because of this displacement to be long-lively accumulated on the fault.…”

“…9; Table 1), indicating a stress state transitional to thrust faulting, as suggested by Bellier and Zoback (1995 Shi et al, 2006bShi et al, , 2013. In addition to the direct structural evidences, this tectonic stress regime was also inferred from the focal mechanisms of earthquakes (IG and SBNHAP, 1990;Li, 1999), GPS (Zhu et al, 2000;Wang et al, 2001;Zheng et al, 2013), geostresses (Ma et al, 2003;Xie et al, 2004), denoting this transpressional event has probably lasted to the present day.…”

Evidence for mechanically coupled lithosphere in central Asia and resulting implications

“…For the surface deformation fi eld, we have used ~2000 global positioning system (GPS) observations (Abdrakhmatov et al, 1996;Bendick Calais et al, 1998;Chen et al, 2000;Heki et al, 1999;Michel et al, 2001;Shen et al, 2000Shen et al, , 2001Simons et al, 1999;Wang et al, 2001;Yu et al, 1999;Zhang et al, 2004;Zhu et al, 2000; http:// sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov/mbh/series.html) and Quaternary fault slip rates (England and Molnar, 1997) to quantify the velocity, V c , velocity gradient tensor, L c , and strain-rate tensor, ε c , following the method of Haines and Holt (1993) and Haines et al (1998) (Fig. DR4).…”

Quaternary paleolake development in the Fen River basin, North China

“…As noted, the study area has been subjected to rapid tectonic deformation during the Quaternary. Zhu et al (2000) and Wang et al (2002) studied the modern crustal motion on the Chinese Mainland using GPS data and concluded that the crustal motion in northern China was affected by the compressive stress from the Tibet Plateau despite its distance away. This observation suggests that Quaternary tectonics in the Fen River basin have been related to crustal movement in the Tibet Plateau.…”