Paleothermal structure of the Shimanto accretionary prism, Shikoku, Japan: Role of an out-of-sequence thrust

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 327-330

  Ohmori, Kotoe ^a   Taira, Asahiko ^a   Tokuyama, Hidekazu ^a   Sakaguchi, Arito ^b   Okamura, Makoto ^c   Aihara, Atsuo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISSION REACTIONS; REFLECTION; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; EOCENE ROCKS; FISSION TRACK; OUT OF SEQUENCES; PALEOTEMPERATURES; PARTIAL ANNEALING; THERMAL STRUCTURE; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

PRISMS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CRETACEOUS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; THERMAL STRUCTURE; THRUST; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE; EOCENE;

JAPAN; SHIKOKU; SHIMANTO BELT;

EID: 0030885859     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0327:PSOTSA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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