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Chua S, Gouramanis C, Etchebes M, Tapponnier P, Klinger Y, Xu X, Gao M, Switzer A, Hancock G.  2016.  Earthquake-bound ponded sediments as a high-resolution archive of Anthropocene climate in the arid Fuyun region of northwestern China. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016.

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Xu X, Yu G H, Ma W T, Klinger Y, Tapponnier P.  2008.  Rupture behavior and deformation localization of the Kunlunshan earthquake (M w 7.8) and their tectonic implications. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences. 51:1361-1374.

Liu-Zeng J, Klinger Y, Xu X, Lasserre C, Chen G, Chen W, Tapponnier P, Zhang B.  2007.  Millennial Recurrence of Large Earthquakes on the Haiyuan Fault near Songshan, Gansu Province, China. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 97:14-34.

Ryerson FJ, Tapponnier P, Finkel RC, Mériaux A-S, Van der Woerd J, Lasserre C, Chevalier M-L, Xu X, Li H, King GCP.  2006.  Applications of morphochronology to the active tectonics of Tibet. Geological Society of America Special Papers. 415:61-86.

Xu X, Yu G H, Klinger Y, Tapponnier P, Van der Woerd J.  2006.  Reevaluation of surface rupture parameters and faulting segmentation of the 2001 Kunlunshan earthquake (Mw7.8), northern Tibetan Plateau, China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 111:B05316.

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Klinger Y, Xu X, Tapponnier P, Van der Woerd J, Lasserre C, King GCP.  2005.  High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Mapping of the Surface Rupture and Slip Distribution of the Mw 7.8, 14 November 2001 Kokoxili Earthquake, Kunlun Fault, Northern Tibet, China. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 95:1970-1987.

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Van der Woerd J, Owen LA, Tapponnier P, Xu X, Kervyn F, Finkel RC, Barnard PL.  2004.  Giant, similar to M8 earthquake-triggered ice avalanches in the eastern Kunlun Shan, northern Tibet: Characteristics, nature and dynamics. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 116:394-406.

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