Extension in the southern Ryukyu arc (Japan): Link with oblique subduction and back arc rifting

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 486-497

  Fabbri, Olivier ^a   Fournier, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; ISLAND ARC; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC SETTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032824949     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999TC900001     Document Type: Article

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