A low-velocity zone with weak reflectivity along the Nankai subduction zone

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 283-286

  Park, Jin Oh ^a,b   Fujie, Gou ^b   Wijerathne, Lalith ^b   Hori, Takane ^b   Kodaira, Shuichi ^b   Fukao, Yoshio ^b   Moore, Gregory F ^b,c   Bangs, Nathan L ^d   Kuramoto, Shin'ichi ^b   Taira, Asahiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; FAULT ZONE; FLUID PRESSURES; LATERAL GROWTH; LOW-VELOCITY ZONE; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; NANKAI SUBDUCTION ZONE; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; STICK-SLIP BEHAVIOR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; TSUNAMI GENERATION; UNDERPLATING;

OCEANOGRAPHY; REFLECTION; RIGIDITY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP FORMING; TECTONICS;

PRISMS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; FAULT ZONE; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STICK-SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UNDERPLATING; UPLIFT;

CHINA; NANKAI; TIANJIN;

EID: 77951963101     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30205.1     Document Type: Article

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