Thin anisotropic layer in the mantle wedge beneath northeast Japan

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 211-214

  Katayama, Ikuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC LAYERS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIFFUSION CREEP; DISLOCATION CREEP; FRICTIONAL SLIDING; HIGH STRESS; ISLAND ARC; LATTICE PREFERRED ORIENTATION; LOW TEMPERATURES; MANTLE WEDGE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHORT DELAY TIME; SUBDUCTING SLABS; THERMAL STRUCTURE; THIN LAYERS; UPPER MANTLE;

ANISOTROPY; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CREEP;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC WEDGE; THERMAL STRUCTURE; UPPER MANTLE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 67349126568     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25413A.1     Document Type: Article

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