Oblique Thrust of the Maidan Fault and Late Quaternary Tectonic Deformation in the Southwestern Tian Shan, Northwestern China

Wu, Chuanyong; Zheng, Wenjun; Zhang, Peizhen; Zhang, Zhuqi; Jia, Qichao; Yu, Jingxing; Zhang, Huiping; Yao, Yuan; Liu, Jianming; Han, Guihong; Chen, Jie

doi:10.1029/2018tc005248

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Oblique Thrust of the Maidan Fault and Late Quaternary Tectonic Deformation in the Southwestern Tian Shan, Northwestern China

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Authors:

Chuanyong Wu

Wenjun Zheng

Peizhen Zhang

Abstract

Abstract The Maidan fault, which is an east‐northeast trending fault in the southwestern Tian Shan, is a sinistral reverse fault that extends more than 400 km in length and constitutes the boundary between the southwestern Tian Shan and the Tarim Basin. Here we quantify its late Quaternary activity ...

Subject

Geology

Sinistral and dextral

Quaternary

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