Tomographic imaging of hydrated crust and mantle in the subducting Pacific slab beneath Hokkaido, Japan: Evidence for dehydration embrittlement as a cause of intraslab earthquakes

Gondwana Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 470-481

  Nakajima, Junichi ^a   Tsuji, Yusuke ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Kita, Saeko ^a   Okada, Tomomi ^a   Matsuzawa, Toru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Intraslab earthquake; Low velocity zone; Oceanic crust; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEHYDRATION; EARTHQUAKE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 69749092049     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2008.12.010     Document Type: Article

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