Active tectonics of Taiwan orogeny from focal mechanisms of small-to-moderate-sized earthquakes

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 755-778

  Rau, Ruey Juin ^a   Wu, Francis T ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Focal mechanism; Orogeny; Stress inversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000277283     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.1998.9.4.755(TAICRUST)     Document Type: Article

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