Lower-crustal rheology and thermal gradient in the Taiwan orogenic belt illuminated by the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake

• Main Authors: Tang, Chi-Hsien, Hsu, Ya-Ju, Barbot, Sylvain, Moore, James D. P., Chang, Wu-Lung
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Lower-crustal Rheology; Thermal Gradient; DRNTU::Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83261; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47999
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The strength of the lithosphere controls tectonic evolution and seismic cycles, but how rocks deform under stress in their natural settings is usually unclear. We constrain the rheological properties beneath the Taiwan orogenic belt using the stress perturbation following the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake...