Off-scraping accretionary process under the subduction of young oceanic crust: The Shimanto Belt of Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Arc

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 305-322

  Ujiie, Kohtaro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; BURIAL; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION; EOCENE; LITHIFICATION; SUBDUCTION;

JAPAN, OKINAWA;

EID: 0030848849     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC03367     Document Type: Article

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