Horizontal shortening versus vertical loading in accretionary prisms

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Raimbourg, Hugues ^a   Tadahiro, Shibata ^a   Asuka, Yamaguchi ^b   Haruka, Yamaguchi ^a   Kimura, Gaku ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretionary prism; Metamorphism; Stress orientation; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449152706     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002279     Document Type: Article

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