Lateral variations of effective elastic thickness of the subducting Philippine Sea plate along the Nankai trough

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 261-273

  Yoshioka, Shoichi ^a   Ito, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

NANKAI TROUGH; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 20644442020     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352383     Document Type: Article

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