Strike-slip faults offshore southern Taiwan: Implications for the oblique arc-continent collision processes

Tectonophysics

Volumn 274, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 25-39

  Fuh, Shi Chie ^a,b   Liu, Char Shine ^b   Lundberg, Neil ^c   Reed, Donald L ^d  

^a CPC CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bookshelf rotation; Oblique collision; Strike slip faults

Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; ARC/CONTINENT COLLISION; FAULTS; LINEAMENT; MARINE GEOPHYSICS; OBLIQUE COLLISION; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; STRIKE SLIP FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

LUZON STRAIT; PHILIPPINES, LUZON; TAIWAN;

EID: 0030722982     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00296-X     Document Type: Article

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