Accretion and exhumation structures formed by deeply subducted seamounts in the Kamuikotan high-pressure/temperature zone, Hokkaido, Japan

Tectonics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1-17

  Ueda, Hayato ^a,b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CRETACEOUS; EXHUMATION; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; SEAMOUNT; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; WORLD;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 21844434993     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004TC001690     Document Type: Article

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