Variation of physical properties beneath a fault observed by a two-ship seismic survey off southwest Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Tsuru, Tetsuro ^a   Miura, Seiichi ^a   Park, Jin Oh ^a   Ito, Aki ^a   Fujie, Gou ^a   Kaneda, Yoshiyuki ^a   No, Tetsuo ^b   Katayama, Takeshi ^b   Kasahara, Junzo ^c  

^a Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences   (Japan)

^b Nippon Marine Enterprises Ltd   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT ZONE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY;

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

EID: 22944436816     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JB003036     Document Type: Article

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