Science news articles about 'longmen shan'

... recent earthquake in Sichuan occurred under some of the steepest and most rugged mountains in the world, the Longmen Shan: the Dragon's Gate Mountains. This dramatic range, steeper than the Himalayas ...

... in the lower crust, rather than shortening of the upper crust. If this is correct, faults in the Longmen Shan range could be active, even without evidence of shortening across the mountain range. " ...

... any of these." On May 12, 2008, about 300 kilometers of the Longmen Shan fault zone ruptured in an earthquake ... least 240,000. As pieces of the Longman Shan fault slipped by as much as nine meters ( ...

... shows fault geometry and rupture distribution of the Longmen Shan fault zone, a series of parallel ... measurements, to reveal geophysical processes within the Longmen Shan fault zone and the lower crust ...