P-wave velocity structure of the southern Ryukyu margin east of Taiwan: Results from the ACTS wide-angle seismic experiment

Tectonophysics

Volumn 578, Issue , 2012, Pages 50-62

  Klingelhoefer, F ^a   Berthet, T ^b   Lallemand, S ^b   Schnurle, P ^a   Lee, C S ^c   Liu, C S ^d   McIntosh, K ^e   Theunissen, T ^b  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Marine seismics; Ryukyu Trench; Subduction processes; Wide angle seismics

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; ACTIVE SEISMIC; AIRGUN ARRAY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FOREARC; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; LOW RESOLUTION; LOW VELOCITIES; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; MARINE SEISMICS; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; OCEANIC CRUST; OKINAWA TROUGH; P-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; REFLECTION SEISMIC; RYUKYU TRENCH; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SOURCE MECHANISMS; SUBDUCTING PLATE; SUBDUCTION INTERFACE; SUBDUCTION PROCESS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; UPPER MANTLE; WIDE ANGLE; WIDE-ANGLE SEISMIC EXPERIMENTS; WIDE-ANGLE SEISMICS;

EXPERIMENTS; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BACKARC BASIN; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GEOPHYSICAL ARRAY; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; OCEANIC CRUST; P-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION; TRAVEL TIME; TRENCH; WAVE VELOCITY;

EAST CHINA SEA; JAPAN; OKINAWA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; RYUKYU ISLANDS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84868625239     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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