Structural features off southwestern Taiwan

Marine Geology

Volumn 137, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 305-319

  Liu, Char Shine ^a,d   Huang, Ian L ^b   Teng, Louis S ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

accretionary wedge; arc continent collision; continental margin; deformation front; seismic imaging; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ARC/CONTINENT COLLISION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION FRONT; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

SOUTH CHINA SEA; TAIWAN;

EID: 0030940970     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(96)00093-X     Document Type: Article

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