Subduction of young plates: A case of the Philippine Sea plate beneath the Chugoku region, Japan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 3-8

  Nakanishi, Ichiro ^a   Kinoshita, Yukiko ^a   Miura, Katsumi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; PLATE TECTONICS;

EID: 20544434291     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352416     Document Type: Article

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