Crust-mantle boundaries in the Taiwan-Luzon arc-continent collision system determined from local earthquake tomography and 1D models: Implications for the mode of subduction polarity reversal

Tectonophysics

Volumn 578, Issue , 2012, Pages 31-49

  Ustaszewski, Kamil ^a   Wu, Yih Min ^b   Suppe, John ^b   Huang, Hsin Hua ^b   Chang, Chien Hsin ^c   Carena, Sara ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Earthquake tomography; Moho; Subduction; Taiwan; Tectonics; Thrust belt

Indexed keywords

1-D MODELS; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; DATA SUPPORT; DEFORMATION FRONT; DEPTH CONSTRAINTS; LOWER CRUST; LUZON ARC; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MOHO; P-WAVE ARRIVAL; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE INTERFACES; POLARITY REVERSAL; SOUTHERN TAIWAN; SUBDUCTION; TAIWAN; THRUST BELTS; TOMOGRAPHIC;

EARTHQUAKES; TOMOGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; DELAMINATION; EURASIAN PLATE; LOWER CRUST; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MOHO; P-WAVE; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; THRUST;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84868625779     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.12.029     Document Type: Article

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