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40
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6808
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426

Best Publications

  • Co-seismic ruptures of the 12 May 2008, Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan: East–west crustal shortening on oblique, parallel thrusts along the eastern edge of Tibet

    J. Liu-Zeng;Z. Zhang;L. Wen;P. Tapponnier

  • Uniform postglacial slip-rate along the central 600 km of the Kunlun Fault (Tibet), from 26Al, 10Be, and 14C dating of riser offsets, and climatic origin of the regional morphology

    Jerome Van Der Woerd;Jerome Van Der Woerd;Paul Tapponnier;Frederick J. Ryerson;Anne-Sophie Meriaux;Anne-Sophie Meriaux

  • Holocene left-slip rate determined by cosmogenic surface dating on the Xidatan segment of the Kunlun fault (Qinghai, China)

    J. Van der Woerd;J. Van der Woerd;F. J. Ryerson;P. Tapponnier;Y. Gaudemer

  • Slip-Rate Measurements on the Karakorum Fault May Imply Secular Variations in Fault Motion

    M.-L. Chevalier;M.-L. Chevalier;F. J. Ryerson;P. Tapponnier;R. C. Finkel

  • Estimating the return times of great Himalayan earthquakes in eastern Nepal: Evidence from the Patu and Bardibas strands of the Main Frontal Thrust

    L. Bollinger;S. N. Sapkota;P. Tapponnier;Y. Klinger

  • Rapid slip along the central Altyn Tagh Fault: Morphochronologic evidence from Cherchen He and Sulamu Tagh

    A. S. Meriaux;A. S. Meriaux;F. J. Ryerson;Paul Tapponnier;J. van der Woerd;J. van der Woerd

  • Uniform slip-rate along the Kunlun Fault: Implications for seismic behaviour and large-scale tectonics

    J. van der Woerd;F. J. Ryerson;Paul Tapponnier;A. S. Meriaux

  • Evidence for 830 years of seismic quiescence from palaeoseismology, archaeoseismology and historical seismicity along the Dead Sea fault in Syria

    Mustapha Meghraoui;Francisco Gomez;Reda Sbeinati;Jerome Van der Woerd

  • Coseismic deformation of the 2001 Mw = 7.8 Kokoxili earthquake in Tibet, measured by synthetic aperture radar interferometry

    C. Lasserre;C. Lasserre;G. Peltzer;G. Peltzer;F. Crampé;Y Klinger

  • The Aksay segment of the northern Altyn Tagh fault: Tectonic geomorphology, landscape evolution, and Holocene slip rate

    A.-S. Mériaux;A.-S. Mériaux;P. Tapponnier;F. J. Ryerson;Xu Xiwei

  • Fast late Pleistocene slip rate on the Leng Long Ling segment of the Haiyuan fault, Qinghai, China

    C. Lasserre;C. Lasserre;Y. Gaudemer;P. Tapponnier;A.-S. Mériaux

  • Exhumation history of the deepest central Himalayan rocks, Ama Drime range: Key pressure‐temperature‐deformation‐time constraints on orogenic models

    E. Kali;P.H. Leloup;Nicolas Arnaud;G. Maheo

  • Late Quaternary sinistral slip rate along the Altyn Tagh fault and its structural transformation model

    Xiwei Xu;Feng Wang;Rongzhang Zheng;Wenbin Chen

  • Slip rate on the Kunlun fault at Hongshui Gou, and recurrence time of great events comparable to the 14/11/2001, Mw∼7.9 Kokoxili earthquake

    Li Haibing;Jérôme Van der Woerd;Paul Tapponnier;Yann Klinger

  • Reevaluation of surface rupture parameters and faulting segmentation of the 2001 Kunlunshan earthquake (Mw7.8), northern Tibetan Plateau, China

    Xiwei Xu;Gui Hua Yu;Yann Klinger;Paul Tapponnier

  • Rapid active thrusting along the northwestern range front of the Tanghe Nan Shan (western Gansu, China)

    J. van der Woerd;X.W. Xu;Haibing Li;Paul Tapponnier

  • Long-term slip rates and characteristic slip: keys to active fault behaviour and earthquake hazard

    Paul Tapponnier;Frederick James Ryerson;Jerome Van der Woerd;Jerome Van der Woerd;Anne-Sophie Mériaux;Anne-Sophie Mériaux

  • Constraints on the late Quaternary glaciations in Tibet from cosmogenic exposure ages of moraine surfaces

    Marie-Luce Chevalier;George Hilley;Paul Tapponnier;Jérôme Van Der Woerd

  • SI-Hex: a new catalogue of instrumental seismicity for metropolitan France

    Michel Cara;Yves Cansi;Antoine Schlupp;Pierre Arroucau

  • Long-term slip rate of the southern San Andreas Fault from 10Be-26Al surface exposure dating of an offset alluvial fan

    Jérôme van der Woerd;Jérôme van der Woerd;Yann Klinger;Yann Klinger;Kerry Sieh;Paul Tapponnier

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Robert C. Finkel
Robert C. Finkel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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