Active tectonics around Almaty and along the Zailisky Alatau rangefront Grützner, C.1, 2*; Walker, R. T.3; Abdrakhmatov, K. E.4; Mukambaev, A.5; Elliott, A. J.3; Elliott, J. R.6 1 COMET, Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge University, Madingley Road, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, CB3 0EZ 2 Now at: Institute of Geological Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Burgweg 11, 07749 Jena, Germany 3 COMET, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN 4 Institute of Seismology, National Academy of Sciences, Kyrgyz Republic 5 Data Center of the Institute of Geophysical Researches, L. Chaikinoy Street 4, Almaty 050020, Kazakhstan 6 COMET, School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK *Corresponding author: Christoph Grützner (
[email protected]) This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1002/2017TC004657 © 2017 American Geophysical Union. All rights reserved. Keywords Tien Shan, Zailisky Alatau, active tectonics, tectonic geomorphology, earthquakes & faulting Highlights - Post-LGM tectonic activity along the Almaty rangefront is expressed in fault scarps in alluvial fans, folding, uplifted abandoned river terraces, and backthrusts - Active deformation is laterally distributed, affecting the rangefront, the interior of the mountains, and the foreland - The Holocene slip rate of the rangefront fault is ~1.2-2.2 mm/a in the eastern section Abstract The Zailisky Alatau is a >250-km-long mountain range in Southern Kazakhstan.