Metamorphic and cooling history of the shimanto accretionary complex, Kyushu, Southwest Japan: Implications for the timing of out-of-sequence thrusting

Island Arc

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 546-559

  Hara, Hidetoshi ^a   Kimura, Katsumi ^a  

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

Author keywords

Illite crystallinity; K Ar age; Nobeoka thrust; Seismogenic thrust; Shimanto Belt; Zircon fission track age

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; COOLING; EOCENE; FOOTWALL; HANGING WALL; METAMORPHISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THRUST;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KYUSHU; SHIMANTO BELT;

EID: 57049158205     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: 14401738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2008.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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