Probing fault zone heterogeneity on the Nojima fault: Constraints from zircon fission-track analysis of borehole samples

Tectonophysics

Volumn 443, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 139-152

  Tagami, Takahiro ^a   Murakami, Masaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Borehole; Fission track; Nojima fault; Thermochronology; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BOREHOLE; COOLING; FAULT PLANE; FAULT ZONE; FISSION TRACK DATING; HEAT FLOW; OUTCROP; ROCK; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL STRUCTURE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 34648836780     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.01.013     Document Type: Article

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