High-resolution subducting-slab structure beneath northern Honshu, Japan, revealed by double-difference tomography

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 361-364

  Zhang, Haijiang ^a   Thurber, Clifford H ^a   Shelly, David ^b   Ide, Satoshi ^c   Beroza, Gregory C ^b   Hasegawa, Akira ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Earthquakes; Serpentine; Subduction zones; Tomography

Indexed keywords

PETROLOGIC MODELING; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTING SLAB STRUCTURE;

BASALT; DEHYDRATION; HYDRATION; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

GEOLOGY;

DEHYDRATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SERPENTINE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 2042524361     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20261.2     Document Type: Article

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