Near-surface evidence of recent Taiwan Orogeny detected by a shallow seismic method

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 163, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 291-300

  Sun, Robert ^a   Sung, Quo Cheng ^a   Liu, Tsung Kuei ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Faults; Orogeny; Plate boundaries; Quaternary; Seismic methods; Seismic stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FAULT; FOLD; OROGENY; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC METHOD;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0032456977     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00194-0     Document Type: Article

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