Variations in sediment thickness and type along the northern Philippine Sea Plate at the Nankai Trough

Island Arc

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 342-357

  Ike, Toshihiro ^a   Moore, Gregory F ^a,b   Kuramoto, Shin'Ichi ^b   Park, Jin Oh ^b,c   Kaneda, Yoshiyuki ^b   Taira, Asahiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basement topography; Nankai Trough; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; OLIGOCENE; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; RELIEF; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION; TURBIDITE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; SHIKOKU;

EID: 48849083262     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: 14401738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2008.00624.x     Document Type: Article

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