Crustal structure of southwest Japan, revealed by the integrated seismic experiment Southwest Japan 2002

Tectonophysics

Volumn 472, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 124-134

  Ito, Tanio ^a   Kojima, Yuji ^b   Kodaira, Shuichi ^c   Sato, Hiroshi ^d   Kaneda, Yoshiyuki ^c   Iwasaki, Takaya ^d   Kurashimo, Eiji ^d   Tsumura, Noriko ^a   Fujiwara, Akira ^e   Miyauchi, Takahiro ^a   Hirata, Naoshi ^d   Harder, Steven ^f   Miller, Kate ^f   Murata, Akihiro ^g   Yamakita, Satoshi ^h   Onishi, Masazumi ⁱ   Abe, Susumu ⁱ   Sato, Takeshi ^c   Ikawa, Takeshi ⁱ  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Daiwa Exploration and Consulting Co Ltd   (Japan)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e Geosys Inc   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

ⁱ 1 5 21 Otsuka   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Inner zone; MTL; Outer zone; Seismic reflection; Southwest Japan

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; INNER ZONE; MTL; OUTER ZONE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SOUTHWEST JAPAN;

CAVITY RESONATORS; EXPERIMENTS; LANDFORMS; LINEARIZATION; SEISMIC WAVES;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THINNING; ISLAND ARC; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC REFLECTION; UPPER CRUST;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 67349196522     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.05.013     Document Type: Article

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