Acoustic and mechanical properties of Nankai accretionary prism core samples

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Raimbourg, Hugues ^a,b   Hamano, Yozo ^a   Saito, Saneatsu ^a   Kinoshita, Masataka ^a   Kopf, Achim ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

compaction; experiments; mechanical properties; Nankai; P wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANISOTROPY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CEMENTING (SHAFTS); COMPACTION; CORE SAMPLES; DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; LITHOLOGY; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; POROSITY; PRISMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASIN SEDIMENTS; CEMENTED MATERIALS; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRITICAL POROSITY; DRILL SITES; FIRST ORDER; IN-SITU; INITIAL DEPOSITIONS; INTER-GRAIN; ISOTROPIC LOADING; LOW ANISOTROPY; MATERIAL RESPONSE; MECHANICAL PARAMETERS; MECHANICAL STATE; NANKAI; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; P-WAVE VELOCITY; POROELASTIC; POROUS SAMPLES; SECOND ORDERS; SHEAR MODULUS; STATIC MEASUREMENTS; VELOCITY DISPERSION;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; COMPACTION; CONFINING PRESSURE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; MARINE SEDIMENT; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; P-WAVE; POROSITY; SEDIMENT CORE; SHEAR MODULUS;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79952516913     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003169     Document Type: Article

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