High strain rate zone in central Honshu resulting from the viscosity heterogeneities in the crust and mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 232, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 13-27

  Yamasaki, Tadashi ^a,c   Seno, Tetsuzo ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Back slip; Dehydration; High strain rate zone; Niigata Kobe tectonic zone; Partial melt; Philippine Sea plate; Serpentinization; Viscosity heterogeneity; Wedge mantle

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RHEOLOGY; STRAIN; VISCOSITY;

INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKES; SUBDUCTION PROCESSES; UNIFORM VISCOSITY; WEDGE MANTLES;

EARTHQUAKES;

BACKARC BASIN; GPS; HETEROGENEITY; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY; STRAIN RATE; VISCOSITY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; WORLD;

MOHO;

EID: 14944379299     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.01.015     Document Type: Article

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