Geochemistry of Quaternary basalts from the Yatsugatake volcano, central Japan: Generation of an unusually deep Wadati-Benioff zone beneath the volcanic front by double-overlapping subduction

Geochemical Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 155-173

  Kaneko, Takayuki ^a,c   Kaneoka, Ichiro ^a   Kawachi, Shimpei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DOUBLE OVERLAPPING SUBDUCTION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; PACIFIC PLATE; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; QUATERNARY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

JAPAN, HONSHU, YATSUGATAKE VOLCANO;

EID: 0030461727     PISSN: 00167002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2343/geochemj.30.155     Document Type: Article

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