Birth of a major strike-slip fault in SW Japan

Terra Nova

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 203-209

  Gutscher, Marc André ^a,b   Lallemand, Serge ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONICS;

JAPAN;

EID: 0033499884     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.1999.00247.x     Document Type: Article

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