Is the plastic flow uniformly distributed below the seismogenic region?

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1085-1090

  Iio, Yoshihisa ^a   Kobayashi, Yoji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC FLOW; SEISMICITY;

EID: 20544447869     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353306     Document Type: Article

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