Recent tectonics and seismicity of the western Altai-Sayan mountainous region, Junggar basin, and Chinese Tien Shan》.pdf

Available online at ScienceDirect Russian Geology and Geophysics 55 (2014) 1441–1451 /locate/rgg Recent tectonics and seismicity of the western Altai–Sayan mountainous region, Junggar basin, and Chinese Tien Shan I.S. Novikov a,*, P.G. Dyad’kov b,c, M.P. Kozlova b, G.M. Mamedov a, A.V. Mikheeva b, O.V. Cherkas a a V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia b A.A. Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia c Novosibirsk State University, ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia Received 27 March 2013; accepted in revised form 25 March 2014; accepted 11 June 2014 Abstract According to GPS monitoring, recent tectonic process between Tarim and West Siberia in the band within 80º–95º E is generated by the northward movement of the Tarim block. During the accompanying horizontal compression of the area, orogeny takes place within linear mobile zones when blocks are squeezed into the upper half-space. When the orientation of the mobile zones is transverse to the compression direction, the