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Active Strike-Slip Faults in Tibet by R.Armijo in 1989

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Some beautiful sketches of geomorphic offsets and historical earthquake surface ruptures. These are on active faults in Tibet, and from Rolando Armijo's famous 1989 paper on the Tibetan strike-slip faults, published in JGR.

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And that fine 3D view of the Beng Co pull-apart, a sketch drawn by our own excellent graphist, Joël Dyon, now infographist and at the head of IPGP's Com' and outreach team.

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Armijo, R., Tapponnier, P., & Han, T. (1989). Late Cenozoic right‐lateral strike‐slip faulting in southern Tibet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 94(B3), 2787-2838.