Late Cenozoic sedimentary process and its response to the slip history of the central Altyn Tagh fault, NW China

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (S1) ◽  
pp. 103-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhengle Chen ◽  
Yueqiao Zhang ◽  
Xuanhua Chen ◽  
Xiaofeng Wang ◽  
A. S. Ramon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Cenozoic ◽  
Sedimentary Process ◽  
Altyn Tagh Fault ◽  
Nw China ◽  
Altyn Tagh ◽  
Slip History ◽  
History Of

Initiation and Long-Term Slip History of the Altyn Tagh Fault

2001 ◽  
Vol 43 (12) ◽  
pp. 1087-1093 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongjun Yue ◽  
Bradley D. Ritts ◽  
Stephan A. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Altyn Tagh Fault ◽  
Altyn Tagh ◽  
Slip History ◽  
History Of

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

2019 ◽  
Vol 09 (10) ◽  
pp. 677-679
Author(s):  
Fan Lv ◽  
Bo Ran ◽  
Chengshan Wang ◽  
Lidong Zhu ◽  
Zijian Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Altyn Tagh Fault ◽  
Altyn Tagh ◽  
Slip History ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Three-dimensional structural model of the Qaidam basin: Implications for crustal shortening and growth of the northeast Tibet

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianming Guo ◽  
Xuebing Wei ◽  
Guohui Long ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Hailong Fan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Qaidam Basin ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Crustal Thickening ◽  
Tibet Plateau ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Altyn Tagh Fault ◽  
Altyn Tagh ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Tibet Plateau

AbstractThe Qaidam basin, bounded by the Altyn Tagh fault in the north, is located in the northeast of the Tibet plateau, and it has important implications for understanding the history and mechanism of Tibetan plateau formation during the Cenozoic Indo-Eurasia collision. In this study, we constructed the main geological structures and surfaces in three dimensions through the interpolation of regularly spaced 2D seismic sections, constrained by wells data and surface geology of the Qaidam basin in northeast Tibet. Meanwhile the Cenozoic tectonic history of the Qaidam basin was reconstructed and the uplift mechanism of the Tibetan plateau was discussed. This study presents the subsurface data in conjunction with observations and analysis of the stratigraphic and sedimentary evolution. The Cenozoic deformation history of the Qaidam basin shows geologic synchroneity with uplifting history of the Tibet Plateau. It is therefore proposed that the deformation and uplifting in the south and north edges of the Tibet Plateau was almost synchronous. The total shortening and shortening rate during Cenozoic reached 25.5 km and 11.2% respectively across the Qaidam basin, indicating that the loss of the left-lateral strike slip rates of the Altyn Tagh fault has been structurally transformed into local crustal thickening across NW-trending folds and thrust faults. Meanwhile there is an about 11° vertical component along the strike-slip Altyn Tagh fault, the block oblique slip shows one more growth mechanism of the northeast Tibet.

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