Coseismic fluid-rock interactions at high temperatures in the Chelungpu fault

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 679-683

  Ishikawa, Tsuyoshi ^a   Tanimizu, Masaharu ^a   Nagaishi, Kazuya ^b   Matsuoka, Jun ^b   Tadai, Osamu ^b   Sakaguchi, Masumi ^b   Hirono, Tetsuro ^b   Mishima, Toshiaki ^c   Tanikawa, Wataru ^d   Lin, Weiren ^a   Kikuta, Hiroyuki ^a   Soh, Wonn ^a   Song, Sheng Rong ^e  

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

^b MARINE WORKS JAPAN LTD   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 62749157721     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo308     Document Type: Article

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