Extensional collapse of the northern Taiwan mountain belt

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 949-952

  Teng, Louis S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TECTONICS; COLLIDING PLATES; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL STRETCHING; CRUSTAL THINNING; EXTENSIONAL COLLAPSE; OROGENIC COLLAPSE; NORTHERN TAIWAN;

GEOLOGY;

COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THINNING; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; OROGENY; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; RIFTING; UPLIFT; COLLISION; NEOTECTONICS; OROGENIC COLLAPSE;

CHINA; TAIWAN; JAPAN; LUZON; PHILIPPINES; RYUKYU ISLANDS;

EID: 0030432383     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0949:ECOTNT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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