Two-dimensional crustal structures of Taiwan from gravity data

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 104-111

  Yen, Horng Yuan ^a,c   Yeh, Yih Hsiung ^a   Wu, Francis T ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

BOUGUER ANOMALY; CENTRAL RANGES; COASTAL RANGE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; GRAVITY SURVEY; STRUCTURAL TRENDS; SUBSURFACE DENSITY;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GRAVITY DATA;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0031845892     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97TC02697     Document Type: Article

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