Origin of the West Taiwan basin by orogenic loading and flexure of a rifted continental margin

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2002, Pages

  Lin, A T ^a   Watts, A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flexure; Foreland basin; Gravity anomaly; Seismicity

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FLEXURE; FORELAND BASIN; GRAVITY ANOMALY; LOADING; OROGENIC BELT; RIFTING; SEISMICITY;

TAIWAN; WEST TAIWAN BASIN;

EID: 0037058527     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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