Active forearc shortening in Tohoku, Japan: Constraints on fault geometry from erosion rates and fluvial longitudinal profiles

Geomorphology

Volumn 195, Issue , 2013, Pages 84-98

  Regalla, Christine ^a   Kirby, Eric ^a,b   Fisher, Donald ^a   Bierman, Paul ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Basement involved thrusts; Cosmogenic 10Be erosion rates; Fluvial longitudinal profile; Fukushima Prefecture; Futaba fault; Knickzones

Indexed keywords

BASIN; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; DISPLACEMENT; EROSION RATE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SLIP; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; SLIP RATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAM; THRUST; UPLIFT; WATERSHED;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84878601646     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.04.029     Document Type: Article

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