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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Byrne, Timothy Briggs.

Liu, Char-Shine, 1952-

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 358.

Special paper ; 358

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology, Structural--Taiwan.

Geology, Structural.

Subduction zones--Taiwan.

Subduction zones.

Plate tectonics--Taiwan.

Plate tectonics.

Island arcs--Taiwan.

Island arcs.

Taiwan.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.

Place of Publication:

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

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Preface: Introduction to the geology and geophysics of Taiwan v

1. Structural expressions of flexural extension in the arc-continent collisional foredeep of western Taiwan / Ying-Wei Chou, Ho-Shing Yu 1

2. Inversion tectonics of the fold-and-thrust belt, western Taiwan / Chung-I Lee, Yu-Long Chang, Mike P. Coward 13

3. Variations along the strike of the Taiwan thrust belt: Basement control on structural style, wedge geometry, and kinematics / F. Mouthereau, B. Deffontaines, O. Lacombe, J. Angelier 31

4. 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, Peter L.K. Knuepfer 55

5. Structure and evolution of the active fold-and-thrust belt of southwestern Taiwan from Global Positioning System analysis / John B. Hickman, David V. Wiltschko, Jih-Hao Hung, Peng Fang, Yehuda Bock 75

6. Taiwan Slate Belt: Insights into the ductile interior of an arc-continent collision / Donald M. Fisher, Chia-Yu Lu, Hao-Tsu Chu 93

7. Lateral extrusion in a transpressional collision zone: An example from the pre-Tertiary metamorphic basement of Taiwan / Michael H. Pulver, Jean M. Crespi, Timothy B. Byrne 107

8. Estimation of the thermal structure of a young orogenic belt according to a model of whole-crust thickening / Teh-Ru Alex Song, Kuo-Fong Ma 121

9. Synorogenic extension, Taiwan: Implications of physical and numerical modeling / Wei-Hau Wang, Wen-Jie Hung 137

10. Transition tectonics of northern Taiwan induced by convergence and trench retreat / Jyr-Ching Hu, Shui-Beih Yu, Hao-Tsu Chu, Jacques Angelier 147

11. Crustal structure of the convergent plate-boundary zone, eastern Taiwan, assessed by seismic tomography / Win-Bin Cheng, Chengsung Wang, Chuen-Tien Shyu, Tzay-Chyn Shin 161

12. Compressional subduction regime and initial arc-continent collision: Numerical modeling / J.-C. Tang, A.I. Chemenda, J. Chery, S. Lallemand, R. Hassani 177

13. Arc-continent collision in Taiwan: New marine observations and tectonic evolution / Jacques Malavieille, Serge E. Lallemand, Stephane Dominguez, Anne Deschamps, Chia-Yu Lu, Char-Shine Liu, Philippe Schnurle, the ACT Scientific Crew 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, [2008]. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN:

0813723582

9780813723587

OCLC:

213836490

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