Low Vp and Vp/Vs zone beneath the northern Fossa Magna basin, central Japan, derived from a dense array observation

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1301-1308

  Kurashimo, Eiji ^a   Hirata, Naoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aqueous fluids; Fossa Magna basin; Itoigawa Shizuoka Tectonic Line; Japan; seismic velocity structure; travel time inversion

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC VELOCITY;

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

EID: 20544439741     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353354     Document Type: Article

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