Forearc-basin closure and arc accretion in the submarine suture zone south of Taiwan

Tectonophysics

Volumn 274, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 5-23

  Lundberg, Neil ^a   Reed, Donald L ^b   Liu, Char Shine ^c   Lieske Jr , Jay ^d  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretionary prisms; Collision; Plate convergence; Two sided orogens

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ACCRETIONARY PRISMS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENCE; FOREARC BASIN; FOREARC BASINS; ISLAND ARC; ISLAND ARCS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SUTURE ZONE;

LUZON STRAIT; PHILIPPINES, LUZON;

EID: 0030660174     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00295-8     Document Type: Article

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