Slumping and mass transport deposition in the Nankai fore arc: Evidence from IODP drilling and 3-D reflection seismic data

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Strasser, Michael ^a   Moore, Gregory F ^b   Kimura, Gaku ^c   Kopf, Achim J ^a   Underwood, Michael B ^d   Guo, Junhua ^d   Screaton, Elizabeth J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D seismic; IODP; Nankai Trough; submarine landslides; submarine mass movements; tectonostratigraphic evolution

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DYNAMIC LOADS; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3-D SEISMIC; IODP; NANKAI TROUGH; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHIC EVOLUTION;

SEISMIC WAVES;

FOREARC BASIN; MASS TRANSPORT; MASS WASTING; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLUMPING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79957491780     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003431     Document Type: Article

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