Backarc basin oceanic crust and uppermost mantle seismic velocity structure of the Shikoku Basin, south of Japan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-155

  Nishizawa, Azusa ^a   Kaneda, Kentaro ^a   Oikawa, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a JAPAN COAST GUARD ACADEMY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Backarc basin oceanic crust and mantle; Marine seismics; Shikoku basin

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; ISLAND ARC; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEANIC CRUST; P-WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SPREADING CENTER; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

IZU-BONIN ARC; JAPAN; KYUSHU-PALAU RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN; SHIKOKU;

EID: 79954472753     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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