Velocity-porosity relationships for slope apron and accreted sediments in the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 315 Site C0001

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Hashimoto, Y ^a   Tobin, H J ^b   Knuth, M ^b  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

accretionary prism; compressional velocity; NanTroSEIZE; porosity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LITHOLOGY; OFFSHORE DRILLING; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; PORE PRESSURE; POROSITY; PRISMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOGRAPHS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CLAY FRACTIONS; COMPRESSIONAL; COMPRESSIONAL WAVE VELOCITY; CRITICAL POROSITY; FLUID PRESSURES; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LOADING HISTORY; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MICRO-X-RAY; MICROSTRUCTURAL TEXTURE; NANKAI SUBDUCTION ZONE; NANTROSEIZE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; OCEANIC PLATE; PRESSURE CONDITIONS; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; STEEPER SLOPES; TEXTURAL ANALYSIS; THRUST FAULTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

ACCRETION; ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DEPOSITION; HANGING WALL; LITHOLOGY; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; POROSITY; SEISMIC ZONE; SUBDUCTION; UNCONFORMITY; WAVE VELOCITY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KII PENINSULA; KINKI; NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 78650611565     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003217     Document Type: Article

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