Topography of the seismic velocity discontinuities beneath the Chugoku and Shikoku districts, Southwest Japan

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 162, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2389-2407

  Oda, Hitoshi ^a   Okamoto, Michiro ^a   Ishise, Motoko ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chugoku and Shikoku districts; Conrad and Moho discontinuities; Gravity anomaly; Philippine Sea plate; Seismic tomography; Southwest Japan

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TOPOLOGY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; CHUGOKU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; SHIKOKU;

EID: 29244485937     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-005-2783-7     Document Type: Article

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