Origin and evolution of a splay fault in the Nankai accretionary wedge

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 648-652

  Strasser, Michael ^a   Moore, Gregory F ^b,c   Kimura, Gaku ^c,d   Kitamura, Yujin ^e   Kopf, Achim J ^a   Lallemant, Siegfried ^f   Park, Jin Oh ^c,d   Screaton, Elizabeth J ^g   Su, Xin ^h   Underwood, Michael B ⁱ   Zhao, Xixi ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^h CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 70149097552     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo609     Document Type: Article

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