Submarine lava flow emplacement and faulting in the axial valley of two morphologically distinct spreading segments of the Mariana back-arc basin from Wadatsumi side-scan sonar images

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Asada, Miho ^a   Deschamps, Anne ^b   Fujiwara, Toshiya ^c   Nakamura, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

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

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Back arc; Deep tow; Phase bathymetry; Side scan sonar; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749114526     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GC001418     Document Type: Article

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