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Science 2 October 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5386, pp. 74 - 76
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5386.74
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Tomographic Evidence for Localized Lithospheric Shear Along the Altyn Tagh Fault
Gérard Wittlinger,
Paul Tapponnier,
Georges Poupinet,
Jiang Mei,
Shi Danian,
Georges Herquel,
Frédéric Masson
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.
G. Wittlinger, G. Herquel, F. Masson, Institut de Physique
du Globe de Strasbourg, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
Université Louis Pasteur, 5 rue R. Descartes 67084 Strasbourg,
France. P. Tapponnier, Laboratoire de Tectonique, Institut de Physique
du Globe de Paris, 4 Place Jussieu, 75205 Paris, France. G. Poupinet,
Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique, Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Joseph Fourier,
Boite Postale 53, 38041 Grenoble, France. J. Mei and S. Danian,
Institute of Mineral Deposits, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences,
Baiwanzhuang Road, 100037 Beijing, China.
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