Thirty-year land elevation change from subsidence to uplift following the termination of groundwater pumping and its geological implications in the Metropolitan Taipei Basin, Northern Taiwan

Engineering Geology

Volumn 95, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 30-47

  Chen, Chih Tung ^a   Hu, Jyr Ching ^a   Lu, Chia Yu ^a   Lee, Jian Cheng ^b   Chan, Yu Chang ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aquifer deformation; Ground subsidence; Groundwater pumping; The Shanchiao Fault; The Taipei Basin

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DEFORMATION; LANDFORMS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS;

AQUIFER DEFORMATION; GROUNDWATER PUMPING; TECTONIC SUBSIDENCE;

GROUNDWATER;

AQUIFER; COMPACTION; DEFORMATION; GROUNDWATER; METROPOLITAN AREA; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIPEI BASIN; TAIWAN;

EID: 35649026241     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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