How was Taiwan created?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 379, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 159-181

  Sibuet, Jean Claude ^a   Hsu, Shu Kun ^b  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Geodynamic model; Kinematics; Seismicity; Taiwan; Tectonics; Tomography

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GEODYNAMICS; ISLAND ARC; KINEMATICS; MIOCENE; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONOPHYSICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 1142304643     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2003.10.022     Document Type: Article

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