Lithospheric flexure under a critically tapered mountain belt: A new technique to study the evolution of the Tertiary Taiwan orogeny

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 571-581

  Wang, Wei Hau ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Eurasian Plate; Flexure; Taiwan; Theoretical studies

Indexed keywords

OROGENY; PLATE MOTION; TERTIARY;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0035204048     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00475-7     Document Type: Article

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