Preliminary neotectonic map of onshore-offshore Taiwan

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL., 2001, Pages 339-349

  Deffontaines, Benoit ^a   Liu, Char Shine ^b   Angelier, Jacques ^c   Lee, Chyi Tyi ^d   Sibuet, Jean Claude ^e   Tsai, Yi Ben ^e   Lallemand, Serge ^e   Lu, Chia Yu ^e   Lee, Chao Shing ^e   Hsu, Shu Kun ^e   Chu, Hao Tsu ^e   Lee, Jian Cheng ^e   Pathier, Erwan ^a   Chen, Rou Fei ^c   Cheng, Chin Tung ^d   Liao, Chi Wen ^d   Lin, Chun Chia ^d   Hsu, Hsi Hao ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Active faults; Earth science data base; Geographical information system; Neotectonic map; Offshore Taiwan; Onshore Taiwan; Remote sensing; Structural geology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035636312     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/tao.2001.12.s.339(t)     Document Type: Article

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