Water-weakened lower crust and its role in the concentrated deformation in the Japanese Islands

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 245-253

  Iio, Yoshihisa ^a   Sagiya, Takeshi ^b   Kobayashi, Yoji ^c   Shiozaki, Ichiro ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Ductile deformation; Earthquakes; Faults; Intraplate processes; Lower crust

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; FAULTING; GPS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LOWER CRUST; TECTONIC SETTING;

JAPAN;

EID: 0037107929     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00879-8     Document Type: Article

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