Where is the Altyn Tagh fault located?

Where is the Altyn Tagh fault located?

northern Tibetan Plateau
The Altyn Tagh fault, located in the northern Tibetan Plateau, is a large left-lateral strike-slip fault heavily responsible for the growth and formation of the plateau during Cenozoic time.

What is the slip rate of the Altyn Tagh fault?

~10 mm/yr
For the segment between 91.5°E and 95°E, the slip rate derived from InSAR was 6.4 mm/yr (Liu et al., 2018a). Recently, the widely accepted slip rate of the Altyn Tagh fault is ~10 mm/yr, which implies that the previous estimation of ~20–30 mm/yr may be overestimated.

What kind of fault is the Altyn Tagh fault?

Altyn Tagh fault. The Altyn Tagh Fault (ATF) is a >1200 km long, active, sinistral (left lateral) strike-slip fault that forms the northwestern boundary of the Tibetan Plateau with the Tarim Basin. It is one of the major sinistral strike-slip structures that together help to accommodate the eastward motion of this zone of thickened crust,…

Where are the fault lines on the Tibetan Plateau?

Major fault zones around the Tibetan Plateau showing location of the Altyn Tagh Fault. The Altyn Tagh Fault (ATF) is a >1200 km long, active, sinistral (left lateral) strike-slip fault that forms the northwestern boundary of the Tibetan Plateau with the Tarim Basin.

Is the Cherchen Fault in the Tarim Basin?

The Cherchen Fault lies within the Tarim Basin and runs parallel to the Altyn Tagh Fault. It is a steep structure that shows no significant vertical offsets in the Tarim Basin and is suspected to be another sinistral strike-slip fault.

Where is the main fault of the ATF located?

The main active fault trace of the ATF lies within a zone of secondary structures that is about 100 km wide in the central section. The geometry of the southwestern section of the fault zone and how it interacts with the main shortening structures remains unclear.