Core description and characteristics of fault zones from Hole-A of the Taiwan Chelungpu-Fault Drilling Project

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 327-357

  Yeh, En Chao ^a,e   Sone, Hiroki ^b   Nakaya, Taichi ^c   Ian, Ka Hao ^d   Song, Sheng Rong ^e   Hung, Jih Hao ^d   Lin, Weiren ^a   Hirono, Tetsuro ^a   Wang, Chien Ying ^d   Ma, Kuo Fong ^d   Soh, Wonn ^a   Kinoshita, Masataka ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chelungpu fault; Chi Chi earthquake; Core description; Deformation structure; Sanyi fault

Indexed keywords

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; CORE ANALYSIS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DRILLING; FAULT ZONE; LITHOLOGY; NORMAL FAULT; RUPTURE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAICHUNG; TAIWAN;

EID: 34547564684     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2007.18.2.327(TCDP)     Document Type: Article

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