Shifting submarine canyons and development of a foreland basin in SW Taiwan: controls of foreland sedimentation and longitudinal sediment transport

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 922-932

  Yu, Ho Shing ^a   Hong, Eason ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Foreland basin; Sediment transport; Submarine canyon; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; FORELAND BASIN; MASS MOVEMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SUBMARINE CANYON; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; PENGHU ISLANDS; TAIWAN;

EID: 33748084049     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2005.09.007     Document Type: Article

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