Backarc deformation along the eastern Japan Sea margin, offshore northern Honshu

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-95

  Van Der Werff, Wytze ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 0034051057     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-9120(99)00046-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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