Transition from rifted continental to oceanic crust at the southeastern Korean margin in the East Sea (Japan Sea)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Cho, Hyun Moo ^a,b   Kim, Han Joon ^b   Jou, Hyeong Tae ^b   Hong, Jong Kuk ^b   Baag, Chang Eob ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; CORRELATION METHODS; GEOMAGNETISM; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURES; OCEANIC CRUSTS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; UNDERPLATING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 3042780033     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019107     Document Type: Article

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