Three-dimensional elastic wave velocity structure of the Hualien region of Taiwan: Evidence of active crustal exhumation

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 89-103

  Lin, Cheng Horng ^a   Yeh, Yih Hsiung ^a   Yen, Horng Yuan ^a,d   Chen, Kou Cheng ^a   Huang, Bor Shouh ^a   Roecker, Steven W ^b   Chiu, Jer Ming ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL EXHUMATION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

TAIWAN;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DATA ACQUISITION; EARTHQUAKES; ELASTIC WAVES; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; COMPLEX TRANSITIONS; ELASTIC WAVE VELOCITY; MODE OF DEFORMATION; P- AND S-WAVE VELOCITIES; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; SUBDUCTED CONTINENTAL CRUST; TRAVEL TIME TOMOGRAPHY;

VELOCITY;

EID: 0031843935     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97TC02510     Document Type: Article

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