Thickness variation of the descending Philippine Sea slab and its relationship to volcanism beneath the Kanto-Tokai district, central Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Kamiya, Shin'ichiro ^a   Kobayashi, Yoji ^b  

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

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TRAVEL TIME; VOLCANISM;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; IZU PENINSULA; JAPAN; KANTO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA; SHIZUOKA [CHUBU];

EID: 34548421953     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB004219     Document Type: Article

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