Exhumation tectonics of the sanbagawa high-pressure metamorphic belt, southwest japan—constraints from the upper and lower boundary faults

International Geology Review

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1194-1206

  Masago, Hideki ^a   Okamoto, Kazuaki ^b   Terabayashi, Masaru ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CRETACEOUS; EXHUMATION; JURASSIC; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

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

EID: 26844537486     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.47.11.1194     Document Type: Article

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