Slab rollback suggested by latest Miocene to Pliocene forearc stress and migration of volcanic front in southern Kyushu, northern Ryukyu Arc

Tectonophysics

Volumn 364, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 9-24

  Yamaji, Atsushi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mesoscale fault; Miyazaki; Okinawa Trough; Paleostress; Stress inversion

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ISLAND ARC; SLAB; STRESS CHANGE; STRESS FIELD; SUBDUCTION;

JAPAN; KYUSHU; RYUKYU ARC;

EID: 0037468784     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00047-7     Document Type: Article

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