Onshore/Offshore Wide-Angle Deep Seismic Profiling in Taiwan

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 301-316

  Yeh, Y H ^a   Shih, R C ^b   Lin, C H ^a   Liu, C C ^a   Yen, H Y ^c   Huang, B S ^a   Liu, C S ^d   Chen, P Z ^b   Huang, C S ^b   Wu, C J ^b   Wu, F T ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep crustal structure; Onshore Offshore; Wide Angle

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000662222     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.1998.9.3.301(TAICRUST)     Document Type: Article

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