Detection of the subducting crust of oceanic plates beneath the Kanto district, Japan

Tectonophysics

Volumn 261, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 249-276

  Ohmi, Shiro ^a,c   Hurukawa, Nobuo ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^b BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LOW VELOCITY LAYER; SUBDUCTION;

JAPAN, HONSHU, KANTO;

EID: 0030424044     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00150-6     Document Type: Article

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