Thesis
Earthquakes and active faults in Central Asia
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This thesis presents the results of research centred on three large Central Asian earthquakes from recent decades: the 1985 Wuqia (China), 1992 Suusamyr (Kyrgyzstan) and 2015 Pishan (China) earthquakes. For the Pishan earthquake I construct a fault slip model based on coseismic interferograms. It shows that the earthquake took place on a well-established fault that is visible in a seismic reflection profile. However, the coseismic and early postseismic deformations are misaligned with...
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Authors
Contributors
+ Walker, R
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Supervisor
+ Parsons, B
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Supervisor
+ Elliott, J
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Supervisor
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- UUID:
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- Deposit date:
- 2019-04-05
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- Copyright holder:
- Ainscoe, E
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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