Collision and extrusion at the Kuril-Japan arc junction

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 843-858

  Kusunoki, Kaori ^a,c   Kimura, Gaku ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Yagai Kagaku Company Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC-ARC COLLISION; COLLISION ZONE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULTING;

JAPAN; KURIL ARC; PACIFIC OCEAN;

DEFORMATION; EXTRUSION; FAULTING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TECTONICS; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

CONJUGATE SYSTEMS; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; REVERSE FAULTS; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; SMALL SCALE; TECTONIC FEATURES; THIRD PHASE; TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARY;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 0032445103     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98TC02699     Document Type: Article

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