scholarly journals Provenance analysis of the Yumen Basin and northern Qilian Shan: Implications for the pre-collisional paleogeography in the NE Tibetan plateau and eastern termination of Altyn Tagh fault

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 156-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Cheng ◽  
Carmala Garzione ◽  
Marc Jolivet ◽  
Weitao Wang ◽  
Jibao Dong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Provenance Analysis ◽  
Altyn Tagh Fault ◽  
Altyn Tagh ◽  
Ne Tibetan Plateau

Along-strike topographic variations of the Altyn Tagh fault in the northern Tibetan Plateau

2022 ◽  
pp. 105082
Author(s):  
Feipeng Huang ◽  
Mingjian Liang ◽  
Huiping Zhang ◽  
Jianguo Xiong ◽  
Yizhou Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Altyn Tagh Fault ◽  
Northern Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Altyn Tagh

scholarly journals Active Strike-Slip Faulting and Systematic Deflection of Drainage Systems along the Altyn Tagh Fault, Northern Tibetan Plateau

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 3109
Author(s):  
Peng Chen ◽  
Bing Yan ◽  
Yuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Stream Channels ◽  
Altyn Tagh Fault ◽  
Drainage Systems ◽  
Northern Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Altyn Tagh

Systematic deflection of drainage systems along strike-slip faults is the combination of repeated faulting slipping and continuous headward erosion accumulated on the stream channels. The measurement and analysis of systematically deflected stream channels will enhance our understanding on the deformational behaviors of strike-slip faults and the relationship between topographic response and active strike-slip faulting. In this study, detailed interpretation and analysis of remote sensing images and DEM data were carried out along the Altyn Tagh Fault, one typical large-scale strike-slip fault in the northern Tibetan Plateau, and together with the statistical results of offset amounts of 153 stream channels, revealed that (i) the drainage systems have been systematically deflected and/or offset in sinistral along the active Altyn Tagh Fault; (ii) The offset amounts recorded by stream channels vary in the range of 7 m to 72 km, and indicate a positively related linear relationship between the upstream length L and the offset amount D, the channel with bedrock upstream generally has a better correlation between L and D than that of non-bedrock upstream; (iii) River capture and abandonment are commonly developed along the Altyn Tagh Fault, which probably disturbed the continuous accumulation of offset recorded on individual stream channel, suggesting that the real maximum cumulative displacement recorded by stream channels might be larger than 72 km (lower bound) along the Altyn Tagh Fault. Along with the cumulative displacements recorded by other regional-scale strike-slip faults in the Tibetan Plateau, these results demonstrate that the magnitude of tectonic extrusion along these first-order strike-slip faults after the collision of India–Asia plates might be limited.

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