Rate of slip from multiple Quaternary dating methods and paleoseismic investigations along the Talas-Fergana Fault: tectonic implications for the Tien-Shan Range

This research was partly run under the Earthquakes without Frontiers project, funded by NERC and ESRC (grant code: EwF_NE/J02001X/1_1). This work was supported by the NERC Radiocarbon Facility NRCF010001 (allocation number 1763.1013). We are grateful to the expertise of Dr Xiaomei Xu at the Keck C cycle AMS Lab, University of California, Irvine for radiocarbon analyses of TAL-13 TR2. This work was supported by public funds received in the framework of GEOSUD, a project (ANR-10-EQPX-20) of the program “Investissements d’Avenir” managed by the French National Research Agency (ANR). Pléiades images provided by the French Space Agency CNES in the framework of ISIS Programme. We are grateful to Jules Fleury who has taken the aerial pictures of the Talas991 Fergana Fault using a drone in summer 2017. The cosmogenic nuclides dating was supported by the National Program TelluS-ALEAS (SHEAR project) of CNRS/INSU. The cosmogenic measurements were performed at the ASTER AMS National Facility (CEREGE, Aix-en994 Provence), which is supported by the INSU/CNRS, the ANR through the "Projets thématiques d’excellence" program for the "Equipements d’excellence" ASTER-CEREGE action and IRD. We would like to thank I. Schimmelpfennig and L. Benedetti for fruitful discussions in the use and calculation of 36 997 Cl. We thank all those involved in the 2013 and 2017 field998 seasons, in particular Anaigul for her efficient camp management, our drivers Mokhtar, Sogon and Ivan and Azat Moldobayev, Sultan Baikulov and Erkin Rahimdinov for their field assistance. K. Blisniuk, J.A. Thompson Jobe, Taylor Schildgen and J. Bruce H. Shyu provided constructive reviews and comments that helped improve the original manuscript.