Seismic Evidence of Ancient Westward Residual Slab Subduction Beneath Southern Taiwan

The northeastern convergence of the Philippine Sea plate toward the Eurasian plate causes the major western Philippine Sea plate boundary to subduct toward the northwest or west directions. However, this phenomenon is not clearly observed along the plate boundary between Luzon and Taiwan. Careful ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cheng-Horng Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2015-01-01
Series:Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
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Online Access: http://tao.cgu.org.tw/pdf/v266p655.pdf