Alternate senses of displacement along the Tsushima fault system during the Neogene based on fracture analyses near the western margin of the Japan Sea

Tectonophysics

Volumn 257, Issue 2-4 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 275-295

  Fabbri, Olivier ^a   Charvet, Jacques ^b   Fournier, Marc ^c  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; MIOCENE; PULL APART BASIN; TECTONICS;

JAPAN, GOTO; JAPAN, HIRADO; JAPAN, TSUSHIMA;

EID: 0029773217     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00151-4     Document Type: Article

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