Pervasive dextral strike-slip faulting within the backstop of the eastern Nankai wedge confirmed by deep-towed seismic data (KAIKO-TOKAI'96 cruise)

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 326, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 869-875

  Huchon, Philippe ^a   Tokuyama, Hidekazu ^b   Lallemant, Siegfried J ^a   Taira, Asahiko ^b   Henry, Pierre ^a   Mazzotti, Stéphane ^a   Le Pichon, Xavier ^a   Appell, Frank ^c   Ashi, Juichiro ^c   Bleyer, Anke ^c   Cadet, Jean Paul ^c   Cochonat, Pierre ^c   Farcy, François ^c   Foucher, Jean Paul ^c   Fujii, Toru ^c   Harmegnies, François ^c   Hirata, Kenji ^c   Jolivet, Laurent ^c   Kato, Yukihiro ^c   Kinoshita, Masataka ^c   Kobayashi, Kazuo ^c   Landure, Jean Yves ^c   Linke, Peter ^c   Nakamura, Koichi ^c   Renard, Vincent ^c   Satra, Catherine ^c   Soh, Won ^c   Suess, Erwin ^c   Tokunaga, Tomochika ^c   more..

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; SEISMIC SURVEY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONICS;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032100891     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8050(98)80026-8     Document Type: Article

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