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Longmen Shan Thrust Belt
Reverse Fault · People's Republic of China
The Longmen Shan Thrust Belt is a reverse fault, where one block rides over the other under compression. Its mapped traces are about 950 km long in People's Republic of China. It lies within the Eurasian Plate, which deforms under the push of neighbouring plates. Its slip rate is estimated at 2 mm per year.
- Type
- Reverse Fault
- Mapped Length
- ≈ 950 km
- Slip Rate
- 2 mm per year
- Countries
- People's Republic of China
- Plates
- Eurasian Plate
Sources: GEM Global Active Faults (Styron et Pagani, 2020), CC BY-SA 4.0, catalogue HimaTibetMap · NOAA NCEI · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Wikidata