Thermal maturity of a fold-thrust belt based on vitrinite reflectance analysis in the Western Foothills complex, western Taiwan

Tectonophysics

Volumn 443, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 220-232

  Sakaguchi, Arito ^a   Yanagihara, Akiko ^b   Ujiie, Kohtaro ^a   Tanaka, Hidemi ^c   Kameyama, Masanori ^a  

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

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chi Chi earthquake; Cumulative displacement; Fault rock; Shear heat; Thermal analysis; Vitrinite reflectance

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; SHEAR ZONE; THERMAL MATURITY; THERMAL STRUCTURE; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 34648825057     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.01.017     Document Type: Article

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