Effective stress and pore pressure in the Nankai accretionary prism off the Muroto Peninsula, southwestern Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Tsuji, Takeshi ^a,b   Tokuyama, Hidekazu ^a   Costa Pisani, Patrizia ^c   Moore, Gregory ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Paradigm Geophysical   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DATA INVERSION; DECOLLEMENT; DEFORMATION; EFFECTIVE STRESS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PORE PRESSURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KOCHI [SHIKOKU]; MUROTO PENINSULA; NANKAI; SHIKOKU; TIANJIN;

EID: 58549105125     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005002     Document Type: Article

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