Fault-related folds above the source fault of the 2004 mid-Niigata Prefecture earthquake, in a fold-and-thrust belt caused by basin inversion along the eastern margin of the Japan Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Okamura, Yukinobu ^a   Ishiyama, Tatsuya ^a   Yanagisawa, Yukio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOLDING; HANGING WALL; MIOCENE; REVERSE FAULT; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NIIGATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 34548549080     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004320     Document Type: Article

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