Quantifying crustal extension and shortening in the back-arc region of Northeast Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Okada, Shinsuke ^a   Ikeda, Yasutaka ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; DEFORMATION; GRAVITY FIELD; INVERSION TECTONICS; MIOCENE; OROGENIC BELT; PLIOCENE; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

JAPAN;

EID: 84856054196     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008355     Document Type: Article

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