Last stage of the Japan Sea back-arc opening deduced from the seismic velocity structure using wide-angle data

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Sato, Takeshi ^a   Takahashi, Narumi ^a   Miura, Seiichi ^a   Fujie, Gou ^a   Kang, Dong Hyo ^b   Kodaira, Shuichi ^a   Kaneda, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Back arc opening; Crustal structure; Japan Sea; Ocean bottom seismograph

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547976204     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GC001135     Document Type: Article

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