Inversion tectonics of the fold-and-thrust belt, western Taiwan

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 358, Issue , 2002, Pages 13-30

  Lee, Chung I ^a   Chang, Yu Long ^a   Coward, Mike P ^b  

^a CPC CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY;

EURASIAN PLATES; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; INVERSION TECTONICS; NORMAL FAULTS; STRUCTURAL STYLES; THICK-SKINNED TECTONICS; THIN-SKINNED TECTONICS;

FAULT SLIPS;

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION; EURASIAN PLATE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; KINEMATICS; OROGENIC BELT; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 84870889038     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2358-2.13     Document Type: Article

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