Depth-dependent crustal anisotropy at midwestern Honshu, Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 3417-3420

  Nakamura, Mamoru ^a   Ando, Masataka ^a   Kusunose, Kinichiro ^b   Sato, Takashi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRACKS; EARTHQUAKES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PORE PRESSURE; SEISMIC WAVES; STRESS CONCENTRATION; GEOPHYSICS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL ANISOTROPY; HYDROFRACTURING; LAYER STRIPPING METHOD; SEISMICITY GRADIENTS; TECTONIC STRESS;

TECTONICS; ANISOTROPY;

CRACK; CRUSTAL ANISOTROPY; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; STRESS; TECTONICS;

JAPAN, HONSHU;

CRACK DISTRIBUTION; CRUSTAL ANISOTROPY; DEGREE OF ANISOTROPY; DEPTH DEPENDENTS; EARTHQUAKE SWARMS; HYDRO-FRACTURING; LAYER STRIPPING METHODS; VERTICAL FLUID FLOW;

EID: 0030292252     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03155     Document Type: Article

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