A miocene pull-apart deformation zone at the western margin of the Japan Sea back-arc basin: Implications for the back-arc opening mode

Tectonophysics

Volumn 334, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 235-244

  Itoh, Yasuto ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Back arc opening; Japan Sea; Pull apart basin; Seismic interpretation; Transcurrent faults

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; BASIN EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; PULL APART BASIN; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC SURVEY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 0034937086     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(01)00068-3     Document Type: Article

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