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Longmenshan Fault

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Since Holocene (10,000), Yingxiu-Beichuan fracture has had evident activities. Its long-term geological slip rate is slower than 1 mm per year. GPS observations confirm the current structural deformation of the Longmenshan formation to be characterized by thrust and right-handed shears, but
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with a low deformation rate. Therefore, Longmenshan formation and its internal fractures constitute a special type that has low earthquake frequences but the potential to cause super strong earthquakes."
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to peaks exceeding 6500 m over a horizontal distance of less than 50 km. Regional topographic gradients typically exceed 10% along this mountain front and rival any other margin of the plateau."
139:. The strike of the fault plane is approximately NE. Motion on this fault is responsible for the uplift of the mountains relative to the lowlands of the 317: 214: 8.0 earthquake occurred on the Yingxiu-Beichuan fracture, as a result of Longmenshan thrust pushing southeastward combined with clockwise shears. 431: 473: 263:"Longmen Shan fold-thrust be ilt and its relation to the western Sichuan Basin in central China: New insights from hydrocarbon exploration" 295: 502: 524: 373: 363:映秀-北川斷裂全新世(10000年)以來具有明顯的活動性,其長期地質滑動速率小於每年1毫米。GPS觀測表明龍門山構造帶的現今構造變形也是以逆衝和右旋剪切為特徵,但變形速度不大。因而,龍門山構造帶及其內部斷裂屬於地震活動頻度低但具有發生超強地震的潛在危險的特殊斷裂。 751: 239:
is one of the world's most remarkable continental escarpments. Elevations rise from circa 600 m in the southern
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E. Kirby, P. W. Reiners, M. A. Krol, K. X. Whipple, K. V. Hodges, K. A. Farley, W. Tang, and Z. Chen, Eric (2002).
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A USGS map of the Sichuan earthquake zone showing dozens of aftershocks within the Longmen Shan mountain region.
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Dong Jia, Dong; Wei, Guoqi; Chen, Zhuxin; Li, Benliang; Zeng, Qing; Yang, Guang; et al. (September 2006).
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fracture (hill-back fracture), and their related folds. The recent M
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Tectonic map of the Tibetan Plateau showing the main structures
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China Virtual Museum of Earthquakes, map charting the
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to the east. Representing the eastern boundary of the
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Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Giles
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thrust fault
Longmen Mountains
Sichuan
China
Sichuan Basin
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Bayan Kola block
South China block
Eurasian Plate
2008 Wenchuan
2013 Lushan
2022 Ya'an earthquakes
China Earthquake Administration
Guanxian
Jiangyou
Yingxiu
Beichuan
Wenchuan
Mao County
Tibetan Plateau
Sichuan Basin
"Longmen Shan fold-thrust be ilt and its relation to the western Sichuan Basin in central China: New insights from hydrocarbon exploration"
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