Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4693914 | Tectonophysics | 2009 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
A multi-purpose seismic experiment named the 2002 integrated seismic experiment Southwest Japan was conducted in 2002 along a more-than-240-km-long line across southwest Japan from the Pacific coast to the Japan Sea coast. Its profile provides the first crustal-scale cross section across the Japanese island arc, which highlights a number of significant points related to the structural development of the arc. Major outstanding points are that the Japanese island arc is composed of two completely different crusts juxtaposed by the Median Tectonic Line (MTL), and that the MTL started its activity associated with lower crustal thinning and formation of an upper crustal-scale half-graben in Late Cretaceous.
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Authors
Tanio Ito, Yuji Kojima, Shuichi Kodaira, Hiroshi Sato, Yoshiyuki Kaneda, Takaya Iwasaki, Eiji Kurashimo, Noriko Tsumura, Akira Fujiwara, Takahiro Miyauchi, Naoshi Hirata, Steven Harder, Kate Miller, Akihiro Murata, Satoshi Yamakita, Masazumi Onishi,