Gravity anomalies and the structure of western Tibet and the southern Tarim Basin

Details Gravity anomalies and the structure of western Tibet and the southern Tarim Basin Gravity anomalies and the structure of western Tibet and the southern Tarim Basin

Dec 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984georl..11.1251l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 11, Dec. 1984, p. 1251-1254. NASA-NSF-supported research.

Physics

44

Earth Crust, Earth Gravitation, Gravity Anomalies, Plates (Tectonics), Tibet, Landsat Satellites, Mountains, Satellite Imagery

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Gravity anomalies across the western part of the Tarim Basin and the Kunlun mountain belt show that this area is not in local isostatic equilibrium. These data can be explained if a strong plate underlying the Tarim Basin extends southwestward beneath the belt at least 80 km and supports part of the topography of northwest Tibet. This corroborates Norin's inference that late Tertiary crustal shortening has occurred in this area by southward underthrusting of the Tarim Basin beneath the Kunlun. This study places a lower bound on the amount of underthrusting.

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