Delamination-wedge structure beneath the Hidaka Collision Zone, Central Hokkaido, Japan inferred from seismic reflection profiling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1057-1060

  Tsumura, Noriko ^a   Ikawa, Hidemasa ^a   Ikawa, Takashi ^a,e,f   Shinohara, Masanao ^a   Ito, Tanio ^a   Arita, Kazunori ^b   Moriya, Takeo ^b   Kimura, Gaku ^c   Ikawa, Takeshi ^d  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION CO LTD   (Japan)

^e Yokosuka Pub Works Office   (Japan)

^f Yokosuka Pub Works Office   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; GEODESY; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; ROCKS; DELAMINATION; GEOPHYSICS; REFLECTION; SEISMOLOGY;

DELAMINATION WEDGE STRUCTURE; HIDAKA COLLISION ZONE; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILING;

SEISMOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES;

ARC-ARC COLLISION; COLLISION ZONE; DELAMINATION; ISLAND ARC; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; SEISMIC SURVEY;

JAPAN;

COLLISION PROCESS; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; KURIL ISLAND ARCS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; METAMORPHIC GRADE; SEISMIC PROFILES; SEISMIC REFLECTION SURVEY; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS;

EID: 0033560488     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900192     Document Type: Article

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