Magnetotelluric evidence for thick-skinned tectonics in central Taiwan

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 711-714

  Bertrand, Edward ^a   Unsworth, Martyn ^a   Chiang, Chih Wen ^b   Chen, Chow Son ^b   Chen, Chien Chih ^b   Wu, Francis ^c   Türkoǧlu, Erşan ^a   Hsu, Han Lun ^b   Hill, Graham ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CRUSTAL DEPTH; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; HIGH-SALINITY FLUIDS; LITHOSPHERIC DEFORMATION; MAGNETOTELLURICS; QUANTITATIVE CORRELATION; RESISTIVITY STRUCTURE; SALINE FLUIDS; SEISMIC VELOCITY MODELS; TECTONIC MODELS; THICK-SKINNED TECTONICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TECTONICS;

TELLURIC PROSPECTING;

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CRUSTAL ROOT; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; DECOLLEMENT; DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERE; LOWER CRUST; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MODELING; TECTONICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 69649103624     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25755A.1     Document Type: Article

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