Morphotectonics and sedimentation in convergent margin basins: An example from juxtaposed marginal sea basin and foreland basin, Northern South China Sea

Tectonophysics

Volumn 466, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 241-254

  Yu, Ho Shing ^a   Huang, Zehn Yin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Convergent margin tectonics; Foreland sedimentation; South China Sea; Taiwan; Wedge top basin

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN TECTONICS; FORELAND SEDIMENTATION; SOUTH CHINA SEA; TAIWAN; WEDGE-TOP BASIN;

CAVITY RESONATORS; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DEBRIS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FLOORS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONVERGENT MARGIN; EURASIAN PLATE; FORELAND BASIN; MORPHOTYPE; OROGENY; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; RIFTING; SEDIMENTATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST; TRANSITION ZONE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; TAIWAN;

EID: 60649117409     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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