Publication Date:
1998-10-02
Description:
Seismic tomography across the Altyn Tagh fault, at the north edge of the Tibetan Plateau, reveals a low P-wave velocity anomaly below the fault down to 140 kilometers. This anomaly probably reflects strike-slip shear in the lithosphere. Slip-partitioning may also induce a wedge of crust from the Tarim Basin to plunge into the mantle.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wittlinger -- Tapponnier -- Poupinet -- Mei -- Danian -- Herquel -- Masson -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Oct 2;282(5386):74-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉G. Wittlinger, G. Herquel, F. Masson, Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite Louis Pasteur, 5 rue R. Descartes 67084 Strasbourg, France. P. Tapponnier, Laboratoire de Tectoniq.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9756478" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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