Differential rotations of north Kyushu Island related to middle Miocene clockwise rotation of SW Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B8, 1997, Pages 17729-17745

  Ishikawa, Naoto ^a  

^a Kyoto University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; MIOCENE; PALAEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC ROTATION;

JAPAN, KYUSHU;

EID: 0031414319     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jb01343     Document Type: Article

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