Preliminary Crustal Structures Across Central Taiwan from Modeling of the Onshore-Offshore Wide-Angle Seismic Data

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 317-328

  Shih, R C ^a   Lin, C H ^b   Lai, H L ^a   Yeh, Y H ^b   Huang, B S ^b   Yen, H Y ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Central Taiwan; Deep crustal structures; Wide angle seismic profiling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000873983     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.1998.9.3.317(TAICRUST)     Document Type: Article

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