Oceanic crust and Moho of the Pacific Plate in the eastern Ogasawara Plateau region

Island Arc

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 361-373

  Tsuji, Takeshi ^a,c   Nakamura, Yasuyuki ^a   Tokuyama, Hidekazu ^a   Coffin, Millard F ^a   Koda, Keita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Magmatic activities; Moho; Oceanic crust; Ogasawara Plateau; Seismic attributes; Seismic velocity

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE ZONE; MAGMATISM; MOHO; OCEANIC CRUST; PACIFIC PLATE; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE;

ASIA; BONIN ISLANDS; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 34548363311     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: 14401738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2007.00589.x     Document Type: Article

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