A structural transect across the Mongolian Western Altai: active transpressional mountain building in central Asia
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The uplift along a transect across the Mongolian Western Altai Mountains is due to the horizontal and vertical growth of flower structures originating from the right-lateral strike-slip faults. The uplift of the mountain is probably due to a compressional stress formed by the Indo-Eurasian collision to the south of the Altai. The basement lithologies along the transect appears to be deep arc basement rocks, or a subduction complex of sedimentary and volcanic rocks, and arc intrusive and extrusive rocks. The southern Bulgan Fault joins the transpressional North Gobi Fault zone in the east.
Publication Name: Tectonics
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0278-7407
Year: 1996
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Strike-slip faults in the southernmost Andes and the development of the Patagonian orocline
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The evidences for strike-slip faulting in the internal zones of the southernmost Andes are presented. Although Tertiary strike-slip faults are known in the southernmost Andes, new evidences show thatstrike-slip faults occur in all parts of the mountain belt and that a componentof strike-slip deformation was present during both mid-Cretaceous and Tertiary orogenesis. Lastly, a new model is proposed that integrates the development of strike-slip faulting and the rotational development of the orocline.
Publication Name: Tectonics
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0278-7407
Year: 1993
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Lithospheric controls on late Cenozoic construction of the Mongolian altai
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The Altai mountain range of central Asia has remained relatively unexplored from a modern structural perspective in comparison to other tectonically active regions worldwide. Thus, a study was conducted where existing and geophysical data for the Mongolian Altai region was evaluated to provide a regional geologic analysis of the area. Possible large-scale lithospheric controls on the late Cenozoic uplift of the Altai are also discussed.
Publication Name: Tectonics
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0278-7407
Year: 1998
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