Moho depth variation beneath southwestern Japan revealed from the velocity structure based on receiver function inversion

Tectonophysics

Volumn 420, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 205-221

  Shiomi, Katsuhiko ^a   Obara, Kazushige ^a   Sato, Haruo ^b  

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

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continental Moho; Oceanic Moho; Philippine Sea plate; Receiver function; Southwestern Japan

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; MOHO; OCEANIC CRUST; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 33744997935     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.01.017     Document Type: Article

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