Late Cenozoic metamorphic evolution and exhumation of Taiwan

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Beyssac, Olivier ^a,b   Simoes, Martine ^a,b,c   Avouac, Jean Philippe ^b   Farley, Kenneth A ^b   Chen, Yue Gau ^d   Chan, Yu Chang ^e   Goffé, Bruno ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; CENOZOIC; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; ISLAND ARC; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; SLATE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UNDERPLATING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 38349156169     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006TC002064     Document Type: Article

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