Frictional properties of incoming pelagic sediments at the Japan trench: Implications for large slip at a shallow plate boundary during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sawai, Michiyo ^a   Hirose, Takehiro ^a,b   Kameda, Jun ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 Tohoku earthquake; DSDP Leg 56; Fracture energy; Friction; IODP Expedition 343; Smectite

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973269103     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1880-5981-66-65     Document Type: Letter

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