Echo characters and sedimentary processes along a rifting continental margin, northeast of Taiwan

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4-5, 2000, Pages 599-617

  Hong, Eason ^a   Chen, I Shih ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Echo characters; Rifting continental margin; Sedimentary processes; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MARGIN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; RIFTING; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034014033     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(99)00087-4     Document Type: Article

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