Along-strike variations of morphotectonic features in the Western Foothills of Taiwan: Tectonic implications based on stream-gradient and hypsometric analysis

Geomorphology

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 109-137

  Chen, Yen Chieh ^a   Sung, Quocheng ^b   Cheng, Kuang Yu ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chi Chi earthquake; Hypsometric integral; Morphotectonics; Stream gradient indices

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; MOUNTAIN REGION; SEISMOTECTONICS; STREAM CHANNEL; TECTONICS;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0242658891     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(03)00059-X     Document Type: Article

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