Low-velocity oceanic crust at the top of the Philippine Sea and Pacific plates beneath the Kanto region, central Japan, imaged by seismic tomography

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Matsubara, Makoto ^a,b   Hayashi, Hiroki ^c   Obara, Kazushige ^a   Kasahara, Keiji ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^b Chiyoda Building   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW VELOCITY ZONE; OCEANIC CRUST; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 31544467568     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB003673     Document Type: Article

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