Research Catalog

Title

Geology and geophysics of an arc-continent collision, Taiwan / edited by Timothy B. Byrne and Char-Shine Liu.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Byrne, Timothy Briggs.
• Liu, Char-Shine, 1952-

Description

viii, 211 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Special paper ; 358

Uniform Title

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 358.

Subject

• Geology, Structural > Taiwan
• Subduction zones > Taiwan
• Plate tectonics > Taiwan
• Island arcs > Taiwan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Structural expressions of flexural extension in an arc-continent collisional foredeep of western Taiwan / Ying-Wei Chou and Ho-Shing Yu -- Inversion tectonics of the fold-and-thrust belt, western Taiwan / Chung-I Lee, Yu-Long Chang, and Mike P. Coward -- Variations along the strike of the Taiwan thrust belt: Basement control on structural style, wedge geometry, and kinematics / F. Mouthereau ... [et al.] -- Synchroneity and morphology of Holocene river terraces in the southern Western Foothills, Taiwan: A guide to interpreting and correlating erosional river terraces across growing anticlines / Meng-Long Hsieh and Peter L.K. Knuepfer -- Structure and evolution of the active fold-and-thrust belt of southwestern Taiwan from Global Positioning System analysis /John B. Hickman ... [et al.] -- Taiwan Slate Belt: Insights into the ductile interior of an arc-continent collision / Donald M. Fisher, Chia-Yu Lu, and Hao-Tsu Chu -- Lateral extrusion in a transpressional collision zone: An example from the pre-Tertiary metamorphic basement of Taiwan /Michael H. Pulver, Jean M. Crespi, and Timothy B. Byrne -- Estimation of thermal structure of a young orogenic belt according to a model of whole-crust thickening / Teh-Ru Alex Song and Kuo-Fong Ma -- Synorogenic extension, Taiwan: Implications of physical and numerical modeling / Wei-Hau Wang and Wen-Jie Hung -- Transition tectonics of northern Taiwan induced by convergence and trench retreat / Jyr-Ching Hu ... [et al.] -- Crustal structure of the convergent plate-boundary zone, eastern Taiwan, assessed by seismic tomography / Win-Bin Cheng ... [et al.] -- Compressional subduction regime and initial arc-continent collision: Numerical modeling / J.-C. Tang ... [et al.] -- Arc-continent collision in Taiwan: New marine observations and tectonic evolution / Jacques Malavieille ... [et al.].

Call Number

JSF 02-897

ISBN

0813723582

LCCN

2002020337

OCLC

49529865

Title

Geology and geophysics of an arc-continent collision, Taiwan / edited by Timothy B. Byrne and Char-Shine Liu.

Imprint

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2002.

Series

Special paper ; 358

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 358.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Byrne, Timothy Briggs.

Liu, Char-Shine, 1952-

Research Call Number

JSF 02-897