Permeability structure around an ancient exhumed subduction-zone fault

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Kato, Aitaro ^a,b   Sakaguchi, Arito ^a   Yoshida, Shingo ^b   Yamaguchi, Haruka ^a   Kaneda, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY;

FAULT ZONES; FLUID PRESSURE;

GEOPHYSICS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXHUMATION; FAULT ZONE; PERMEABILITY; SANDSTONE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; SHIMANTO BELT;

EID: 18544405376     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019183     Document Type: Article

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