Fault reactivation and active tectonics on the fore-arc side of the back-arc rift system, NE Japan

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2011-2022

  Kato, Naoko ^a   Sato, Hiroshi ^a   Umino, Norihito ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active and seismogenic faults; Aftershock distribution; Basin inversion; Fault reactivation; Japan; Northern Honshu

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; AFTERSHOCK DISTRIBUTION; BASIN INVERSION; FAULT REACTIVATION; NORTHERN HONSHU; SEISMOGENIC FAULT;

EARTHQUAKES; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; LANDFORMS; SEISMOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

ACTIVE FAULT; AFTERSHOCK; BACKARC BASIN; BOUGUER ANOMALY; FAULT GEOMETRY; FOREARC BASIN; NORMAL FAULT; REACTIVATION; RIFTING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; THRUST FAULT; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 33750941011     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2006.08.004     Document Type: Article

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