Tension cracks on the oceanward slopes of the northern Japan and Mariana Trenches

Marine Geology

Volumn 141, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 111-123

  Ogawa, Yujiro ^a   Kobayashi, Kazuo ^b   Hotta, Hiroshi ^b   Fujioka, Kantaro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake shaking; Gravitational instability; Japan Trench; Mariana Trench; Oceanward slope; Open crack

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; EARTHQUAKE; FRACTURES; MASS FLOW; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TENSION; TENSION FRACTURE; TRENCHES;

PACIFIC, JAPAN TRENCH; PACIFIC, MARIANA TRENCH;

EID: 0030681246     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00059-5     Document Type: Article

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