Soil-gas monitoring: A tool for fault delineation studies along Hsinhua Fault (Tainan), Southern Taiwan

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 602-607

  Walia, Vivek ^a   Lin, Shih Jung ^a   Fu, Ching Chou ^b   Yang, Tsanyao Frank ^b   Hong, Wei Li ^b   Wen, Kuo Liang ^a,c   Chen, Cheng Hong ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER GAS; FAULT ZONE; NEOTECTONIC FEATURES; PRECURSORY SIGNALS; SOIL GAS; SOIL-GAS MONITORING; SOUTHERN TAIWAN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECTONIC SYSTEM;

GASES; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOILS;

RADON;

ANOMALY; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; FAULT; HELIUM; NEOTECTONICS; RADON; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SOIL GAS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VOLCANIC GAS;

TAINAN; TAIWAN;

EID: 77949431094     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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