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Delvaux, D., Fernandez-Alonso, M., Klerkx, J., Kuzmin, A., Matton, C., Selegei, V., Theunissen, K. & Vysotskii, E. 1995. ‘Evidences for active tectonics in Lake Teletskoye (Gorny-Altai, South-Siberia)’. Russian Geology and Geophysics 36(10): 109-122 (in Russian), 100-112 (in English). Novosibirsk / New York : Russian Academy of Sciences / Allerton Press. I.F. 0.85.
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Support for a tectonic origin of the Lake Teletskoe Depression comes from several observations on basin architecture, satellite lineament analysis, morphotectonics and microtectonics. They confirm that the N-S segment of Lake Teletskoe is an extensional tectonic depression, which is located between two transpressive fault zones with opposite directions of Quaternary movements: the NE-trending sinistral West Sayan fault and the NW-trending dextral Shapshal fault. Extension in the Teletskoe basin is assumed to result from the eastward lateral offset of the West Sayan block bordering the basin at its eastern side with respect to the western block. Extensional structures better expressed in the southern part of the basin suggest its higher extension rate as compared with the northern one. This implies a counterclockwise rotation of the West Sayan block, in addition to its eastward movement.