The block rotation in the Uetsu area, Northern Part of Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 805-815

  Mino, Koichiro ^a,b   Yamaji, Atsushi ^a   Ishikawa, Naoto ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJI XEROX CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK ROTATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

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

EID: 1942424320     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03351678     Document Type: Article

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