A west-dipping seismogenic boundary beneath the Chia-Yi area of western Taiwan

Taiwan is one of the most typical arc-continental collision systems in the world. The Taiwan orogeny is often explained by the thin-skin model, where a shallow decollement, with depths of less than 10 km, is considered as the crustal deformation boundary for generating significant mountains on the i...

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Main Authors: Min-Hung Shih, Cheng-Horng Lin, Hsin-Chieh Pu, Ya-Chuan Lai, Hsiao-Fen Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Chinese Geoscience Union 2018-01-01
Series:Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Online Access: http://tao.cgu.org.tw/media/k2/attachments/v295p499.pdf