Spatial and temporal evolution of the megasplay fault in the Nankai Trough

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Kimura, Gaku ^a   Moore, Gregory F ^b   Strasser, Michael ^c   Screaton, Elizabeth ^d   Curewitz, Daniel ^e   Streiff, Carolyn ^f   Tobin, Harold ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DIFFERENT MODES; FAULT ACTIVITY; OBLIQUE SUBDUCTION; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SPATIAL EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; THRUST ZONE;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; FOOTWALL; IMBRICATION; OBLIQUE FAULT; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEAMOUNT; SUBDUCTION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; KUMANO; MIE; NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79953251926     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003335     Document Type: Article

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