Publication Date:
2001-10-20
Description:
Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements in China indicate that crustal shortening accommodates most of India's penetration into Eurasia. Deformation within the Tibetan Plateau and its margins, the Himalaya, the Altyn Tagh, and the Qilian Shan, absorbs more than 90% of the relative motion between the Indian and Eurasian plates. Internal shortening of the Tibetan plateau itself accounts for more than one-third of the total convergence. However, the Tibetan plateau south of the Kunlun and Ganzi-Mani faults is moving eastward relative to both India and Eurasia. This movement is accommodated through rotation of material around the eastern Syntaxis. The North China and South China blocks, east of the Tibetan Plateau, move coherently east-southeastward at rates of 2 to 8 millimeters per year and 6 to 11 millimeters per year, respectively, with respect to the stable Eurasia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wang, Q -- Zhang, P Z -- Freymueller, J T -- Bilham, R -- Larson, K M -- Lai, X -- You, X -- Niu, Z -- Wu, J -- Li, Y -- Liu, J -- Yang, Z -- Chen, Q -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Oct 19;294(5542):574-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Seismology, China Seismological Bureau, Wuhan 430071, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11641493" 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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