Fig. 5.
Top views of four experiments simulating Asian deformation with different velocity ratios (R) showing the horizontal infinitesimal displacement field. The results are shown for the end of each experimental run. a Experiment IMIN-R with R = 0.25 (minimum indentation). b Experiment IINT-R with R = 0.50 (intermediate indentation). c Experiment IMAX-R with R = 0.62 (maximum indentation). d Experiment IINT-NR with R = 1.00 (intermediate indentation and no rollback). The infinitesimal displacement field is determined for the last 40 min (~0.866 Myr) of the experiment. Note that the displacement fields in a–c generally mimic the GPS velocity field observed in Central, East and Southeast Asia27