Crustal thinning of the northern continental margin of the South China Sea

Marine Geophysical Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 63-78

  Tsai, Ching Hui ^a,b   Hsu, Shu Kun ^a   Yeh, Yi Ching ^a   Lee, Chao Shing ^b   Xia, Kanyuan ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Continental margin; Crustal structure; Crustal thinning; Gravity modeling; South China sea

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAVITATION; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THINNING; GRAVITY MODELING; OCEANIC CRUST; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

GEOPHYSICS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THINNING; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; OCEANIC CRUST;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; WORLD;

EID: 25844491589     PISSN: 00253235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11001-005-0733-5     Document Type: Article

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