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The crustal shortening /thickening within high Tibet and its tectonic ...

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Velocity Pattern for Viscous medium<br />

1 Distributed deformation throughout crust<br />

2 Velocity changes little across active fault<br />

3 Smooth velocity curve, decrease monotonically or<br />

linearly with respect to fixed point<br />

Visco-elastic Medium<br />

Driving Force<br />

Velocity<br />

fault<br />

Fixed point<br />

O<br />

Length<br />

Continuously<br />

Deforming<br />

Extension<br />

GPS Profile across boundary zone between the<br />

Australian <strong>and</strong> Pacific Plate, New Zeal<strong>and</strong>,<br />

Bourne et al, Nature, 391, 655,1998

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