Interplate coupling and deformation in the accretionary prism in the Southwest Japan subduction zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3145-3148

  Furukawa, Yoshitsugu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRICTION; GRANITE; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTICITY; PORE PRESSURE; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; FRICTIONAL STRESS; ISOVISCOUS CORNER FLOW MODEL; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DEFORMATION; SEISMICITY; TECTONICS;

JAPAN;

EID: 0033569015     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL005403     Document Type: Article

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