Dating pseudotachylyte of the Nojima fault using the zircon fission-track method

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Murakami, Masaki ^a   Tagami, Takahiro ^a  

^a Graduate School of Science ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; ZIRCON; SILICATE MINERALS;

PSEUDOTACHYLYTE; SEISMIC FAULT MOTION; ZIRCON FISSION TRACK;

SEISMOLOGY; FISSION REACTIONS;

DATING METHOD; FAULT; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; KOBE EARTHQUAKE 1995; PALEOCENE; PSEUDOTACHYLITE;

ASIA; AWAJI; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; HYOGO; JAPAN; KINKI; NOJIMA FAULT ZONE;

FISSION TRACK; HOST ROCKS; INITIAL COOLING; KOBE EARTHQUAKE; NOJIMA FAULTS; PSEUDOTACHYLYTES; SEISMIC FAULT MOTIONS; ZIRCON FISSION TRACKS;

EID: 6044224837     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020211     Document Type: Article

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