The upper reach of the Hutuo River flows along the Xin-Ding basin and cuts a transverse drainage
through Xizhou Mountain and Taihang Range into the North China Plain. Previous studies showed
that the Xin-Ding basin was occupied by a lake during the Early-Middle Pleistocene. However,
the timing of the paleolake...
The way of slip transformation and strain partitioning at the eastern termination of the Kunlun
fault system remains unclear, and the question of whether this fault system is an important part for
lateral extrusion of Tibetan crust is debatable. The Tazang fault is regarded as the easternmost
continuation of the...
Although much work has been done on active tectonics of eastern Tibet, little is known about the Longriba fault zone and its role in strain partitioning. Whether its two sub-parallel strands (Longriqu and Maoergai faults) can rupture simultaneously in a large earthquake remains unknown. We conducted trenching combined with the...