Coupled fluid flow and deformation modeling of the frontal thrust region of the Kumano Basin transect, Japan: Implications for fluid pressures and decollement downstepping

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Rowe, Katherine T ^a   Screaton, Elizabeth J ^a   Ge, Shemin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

fluid flow; IODP; Nankai; subduction zone

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; PORE PRESSURE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS;

COEFFICIENT OF FRICTIONS; DEFORMATION FRONT; DEFORMATION MODELING; EXCESS PORE PRESSURE; FAULT ZONE; FLUID PRESSURES; IODP; NANKAI; NUMERICAL MODELING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST SLIP; VOLUME CHANGE;

DEFORMATION;

DECOLLEMENT; DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PORE PRESSURE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST; VOLUME CHANGE;

CHINA; JAPAN; KUMANO BASIN; NANKAI; PACIFIC OCEAN; SHIKOKU; TIANJIN;

EID: 84858649187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003861     Document Type: Article

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