A determining on the displacement of the Altun Tagh sinistral strike-slip fault, NW China: New evidence from the tectonic metallogenetic belt in the eastern part of Altun Tagh Mountains.
阿尔金断裂走滑位移的确定——来自阿尔金山东段构造成矿带的新证据

Altun Tagh fault, as one of the largest strike-slip faults in NW China, extends about 1500km with a NEE-trending. It is characterized as violent penetrability, large scale, strong activity and long displacement. There are different viewpoints about the displacement of the fault, some geologists consider that the displacement is about 300~500km, but other geologist consider as 700~800km, even 900~1000km. The headway of ore-prospecting last teen years shows that the eastern part of Altun Tagh Mountains is an important Fe-Cu-Au-Pb-Zn multi metallogenetic belt. And the deposit genetic type, assemblage of different deposit and metallogenetic condition are well similar to the western part of the northern Qilianshan metallogenetic belt. So the eastern Altun Tagh metallogenetic belt is the west extension of the northern Qilianshan metallogenetic belt. In other words, eastern Altun Tagh metallogenetic belt is a part of the northern Qilianshan metallogenetic belt being dislocated by Altun Tagh fault as it sinistral strike-slip motion. Therefore, according to the corporation between Altun Tagh metallogenetic belt and Qilianshan metallogenetic belt, the writer believes that the displacement is about 400km.