Tectonic wedging along the rear of the offshore Taiwan accretionary prism

Tectonophysics

Volumn 374, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 199-217

  Chi, Wu Cheng ^a,b   Reed, Donald L ^a   Moore, Greg ^c   Nguyen, Tuan ^b   Liu, Char Shine ^d   Lundberg, Neil ^e  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity modeling; Lithospheric collision; Seismic reflection data; Tectonic wedge

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; COLLISION; DEFORMATION; GRAVITY ANOMALY; LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC WEDGE;

SOUTH CHINA SEA; TAIWAN;

EID: 0142168369     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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