A slump in the trench: Tracking the impact of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 935-938

  Strasser, M ^a   Kolling M ^b   dos Santos Ferreira, C ^b   Fink, H G ^b   Fujiwara, T ^c   Henkel, S ^d   Ikehara, K ^e   Kanamatsu, T ^c   Kawamura, K ^f   Kodaira, S ^c   Romer M ^b   Wefer, G ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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

^f YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; DEFORMATION FRONT; EARTHQUAKE SLIP; FOREARC; RE-EQUILIBRATION; SEDIMENT CORE; SINGLE-EVENTS;

BATHYMETRY; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

BATHYMETRY; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; SEDIMENT CORE; SLUMPING; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRENCH;

JAPAN TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84888773865     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34477.1     Document Type: Article

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