Tectonic implications of nonparallel topographic and structural curvature in the higher elevations of an active collision zone, Taiwan

Lithosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-66

  Mirakian, David C ^a   Crespi, Jean M ^a   Byrne, Timothy B ^a   Huang, Chung ^a   Ouimet, William B ^a   Lewis, Jonathan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIPS;

COMPRESSION DIRECTIONS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; PRECISE LEVELING; ROCK UPLIFT RATES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

COLLISION ZONE; COMPRESSION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FAULT ZONE; FRACTURE ZONE; PLATE TECTONICS; RIVER BASIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

PULI; TAIWAN;

TACHIA;

EID: 84873507831     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L232.1     Document Type: Article

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