Lack of Compressional Overprint on the Extensional Structure in Offshore Tainan and the Tectonic Implications

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 505-522

  Chen, Allen T ^a   Yang, Yu Liang ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CPC CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Deformation front; Seismic data; Tainan Basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004111354     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/tao.1996.7.4.505(acct)     Document Type: Article

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