1. Nucleation and growth of basement-cored uplifts around strike-slip faults: Case study of the Kungey-Zailisky ranges, Tien Shan, Central Asia.
The Tien Shan are the type-locality of distributed, active intracontinental shortening. Lacustrine basins within such systems host important petroleum reservoirs. North-ward propagation of the Tien Shan into the Kazakh platform illustrates the role of oblique, pre-existing strike-slip faults in localizing shortening structures. X X’
Slip-rates and cross-section reconstructions illuminate uplift surrounding the inherited, obliquely slipping Kemin-Chilik fault. Gradients in deformation rate (above) in reverse faults that root into the active Kemin-Chilik fault at depth (left) suggest a complex, 3-D partitioning of shortening during range initiation and growth.