scholarly journals Reevaluation of the Late Pleistocene Slip Rate of the Haiyuan Fault Near Songshan, Gansu Province, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 5217-5240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenqian Yao ◽  
Jing Liu‐Zeng ◽  
M. E. Oskin ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Zhanfei Li ◽  
...  
Terra Nova ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 238-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xing-Wang Liu ◽  
Dao-Yang Yuan ◽  
Qi Su

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 1884-1891 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Bormann ◽  
B. E. Surpless ◽  
M. W. Caffee ◽  
S. G. Wesnousky

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Špaček ◽  
Vít Ambrož

Preliminary results of a research into the late Quaternary slip of a major fault in the seismically active Upper Morava Basin are given. Three trenches, up to 6 m deep, were excavated at the foot of the Kosíř Fault scarp near Stařechovice and Čelechovice. The exposed complex sequences of colluvium and loess, now only partly dated by OSL and 14C, is heavily faulted. The faulting is explained by a tectonic slip at the Kosíř Fault and, in the Stařechovice trench, also by simultaneous slope deformations. None of the faults do off set the Holocene topsoil but the youngest of them were clearly active aft er the deposition of the youngest loess and indicate the slip of up to 1.4 m in Late Pleistocene. In Čelechovice trenches the minimum vertical throw of 4 m is indicated for the lower part of the sequence with assumed Late Pleistocene age. The geometry of the deformed zone suggests an oblique normal faulting with significant strike-slip component. The sense of shearing in the horizontal plane was not resolved. Minimum tectonic slip rate of 0.1‒0.3 mm/year in Late Pleistocene is suggested but this must be confi rmed by new dating. Our observations reveal surprisingly young and large deformation which may suggest a temporary increase of tectonic activity during Late Pleistocene.


2016 ◽  
Vol 125 (8) ◽  
pp. 1603-1614 ◽  
Author(s):  
YANJIE WANG ◽  
FADONG WU ◽  
XUJIAO ZHANG ◽  
PENG ZENG ◽  
PENGFEI MA ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Galli ◽  
Biagio Giaccio ◽  
Edoardo Peronace ◽  
Paolo Messina

2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (11) ◽  
pp. 1047-1052 ◽  
Author(s):  
HaiJun Li ◽  
XiuJie Wu ◽  
ShengHua Li ◽  
WeiWen Huang ◽  
Wu Liu

Tectonics ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Hetzel ◽  
Mingxin Tao ◽  
Stephen Stokes ◽  
Samuel Niedermann ◽  
Susan Ivy-Ochs ◽  
...  

Lithosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (Special 2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Gan ◽  
Ai Ming ◽  
Zheng Wenjun ◽  
Bi Haiyun ◽  
Liu Jinrui ◽  
...  

Abstract The Elashan fault (ELSF) and Qinghainanshan fault (QHNF), two major faults developed around the Qinghai Lake and Chaka-Gonghe basins, are of great importance for investigating the deformation model of the internal northeastern Tibetan Plateau. However, their late Pleistocene slip rates remain poorly constrained. In this study, we combine high-resolution topography acquired from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and geomorphological dating to calculate the slip rates of the two faults. We visited the central ELSF and western QHNF and measured displaced terraces and stream channels. We collected 10Be samples on the surface of terraces to constrain the abandonment ages. The dextral slip rate of the central segment of the Elashan fault is estimated to be 2.6±1.2 mm/yr. The uplift rates since the late Pleistocene of the Elashan and Qinghainanshan faults are 0.4±0.04 mm/yr and 0.2±0.03 mm/yr, respectively. Comparing the geological rates with the newly published global positioning system (GPS) rates, we find that the slip rates of the major strike-slip faults around the Qinghai Lake and Chaka-Gonghe basins are approximately consistent from the late Pleistocene to the present day. The overall NE shortening rates by summing up the geological slip rates on major faults between the East Kunlun and Haiyuan faults are ~3.4 mm/yr, smaller than the geodetic shortening rates (~4.9 to 6.4 mm/yr), indicating that distributed deformation plays an important role in accommodating the regional deformation. By analyzing the geometrical and kinematic characteristics of the major faults surrounding the basins, we suggest that the kinematic deformation of the internal northeastern Tibet is a nonrigid bookshelf model that consists of counterclockwise rotation (~0.8° Myr-1) and distributed thrusting.


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