Tears or thinning? Subduction structures in the Pacific plate beneath the Japanese Islands

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 180, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 52-58

  Kennett, B L N ^a   Furumura, T ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Slab tears; Subduction zones; Tomographic imaging

Indexed keywords

DISTINCTIVE FEATURES; FOCAL MECHANISM; GUIDED WAVE; HIGH FREQUENCY; HOKKAIDO; MARIANA ARC; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PACIFIC PLATES; ROLL BACK; SEISMIC EVENT; SLAB DEFORMATION; SLAB MORPHOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC SYSTEM; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING; WAVESPEED;

CAVITY RESONATORS; PIPE FLOW; TECTONICS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; FOCAL MECHANISM; IMAGING METHOD; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE TECTONICS; SLAB; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

HONSHU; IZU-BONIN ARC; JAPAN; MARIANA ARC; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77952528925     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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