Tectonic features associated with the overriding of an accretionary wedge on top of a rifted continental margin: An example from Taiwan

Marine Geology

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 186-203

  Lin, Andrew T ^a   Liu, Char Shine ^b   Lin, Che Chuan ^a   Schnurle, Philippe ^b   Chen, Guan Yu ^a   Liao, Wei Zhi ^a   Teng, Louis S ^c   Chuang, Hui Ju ^b   Wu, Ming Shyan ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CPC CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

accretionary wedge; rifted continental margin; structural styles; Taiwan; tectonic inheritance

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; RIFTED CONTINENTAL MARGIN; STRUCTURAL STYLES; TAIWAN; TECTONIC INHERITANCE;

SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINES;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AGGRADATION; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGENE; RIFT ZONE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SLOPE DYNAMICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC WEDGE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 56049109051     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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