P and S wave velocity measurements of water-rich sediments from the Nankai Trough, Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 787-805

  Schumann, Kai ^a   Stipp, Michael ^a   Behrmann, Jan H ^a   Klaeschen, Dirk ^a   Schulte Kortnack, Detlef ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differentiation of variably consolidated sediments using acoustic properties; Improved data processing of sonic velocity measurements; Sonic velocitymeasurements conducted during triaxial deformation tests

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CONFINING PRESSURE; DEFORMATION; EFFECTIVE STRESS; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRIAXIAL TEST;

JAPAN; NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84899671456     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JB010290     Document Type: Article

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