Melting features along the Ryukyu slab tear, beneath the southwestern Okinawa Trough

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Lin, Jing Yi ^a   Hsu, Shu Kun ^b   Sibuet, Jean Claude ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

1517 Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism: Magnetic anomaly modeling; 7218 Seismology: Lithosphere and upper mantle; 8100 Tectonophysics; 8159 Tectonophysics: Rheology crust and lithosphere

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DATA REDUCTION; GEOPHYSICS; MAGNETIZATION; MELTING;

ARC VOLCANISM; MAGMAS; MELT FLUX; OKINAWA TROUGH;

VOLCANOES;

FRACTURE; ISLAND ARC; MELTING; PLATE TECTONICS; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EAST CHINA SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; OKINAWA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 11044230200     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020862     Document Type: Article

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