Episodic seafloor mud brecciation due to great subduction zone earthquakes

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 919-922

  Sakaguchi, Arito ^a   Kimura, Gaku ^b   Strasser, Michael ^c   Screaton, Elizabeth J ^d   Curewitz, Daniel ^e   Murayama, Masafumi ^f  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION TIME; EXPERIMENT DATA; FAULT ACTIVITY; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; HISTORICAL RECORDS; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; SEA FLOOR; SEISMIC SHAKING; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKES;

BRECCIA; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; RECONSTRUCTION; SEAFLOOR; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 80053950122     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32043.1     Document Type: Article

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