Three-dimensional Qp- and Qs-tomography beneath Taiwan orogenic belt: Implications for tectonic and thermal structure

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 891-910

  Wang, Yu Ju ^a   Ma, Kuo Fong ^a   Mouthereau, Frederic ^b,c   Eberhart Phillips, Donna ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^c CRPG CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body waves; Crustal structure; Seismic attenuation; Seismicity and tectonics; Tomography

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; DECOLLEMENT; EXHUMATION; FAULT GEOMETRY; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENIC BELT; P-WAVE; Q FACTOR; RHEOLOGY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

CHELUNGPU FAULT ZONE; PINGTUNG PLAIN; TAIWAN;

EID: 74549220815     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04459.x     Document Type: Article

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