Cenozoic stratigraphy and subsidence history of the South China Sea margin in the Taiwan region

Basin Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 453-478

  Lin, A T ^a   Watts, A B ^b   Hesselbo, S P ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; FORELAND BASIN; OROGENIC BELT; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0347578086     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.2003.00215.x     Document Type: Article

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