Evolution of Sedimentary Environments in the Subduction Zone v of Southwest Japan: Recent Results from the NanTroSEIZE Kumano Transect

Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 310-328

  Underwood, Michael B ^a   Moore, Gregory F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretionary prism; Forearc basin; Integrated Ocean Drilling Program; Lithostratigraphy; Nankai Trough

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872346846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347166.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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