SHEAR PARTITIONING IN THE EASTERN NANKAI TROUGH - EVIDENCE FROM SUBMERSIBLE DIVES

Authors
LEPICHON X LALLEMANT S FOURNIER M CADET JP KOBAYASHI K
Citation
X. Lepichon et al., SHEAR PARTITIONING IN THE EASTERN NANKAI TROUGH - EVIDENCE FROM SUBMERSIBLE DIVES, Earth and planetary science letters, 128(3-4), 1994, pp. 77-83
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Earth and planetary science letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
0012821X
Volume
128
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
77 - 83
Database
ISI
SICI code
0012-821X(1994)128:3-4<77:SPITEN>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
Submersible dives over the wedge of the easternmost Nankai Trough demo nstrate the existence of a left-lateral strike-slip system parallel to the subduction zone. This system develops as the trench, turning nort hward toward land, becomes highly oblique to the motion. Although shea r partitioning is well known in other subduction zones, the process he re has the peculiarity of continuing northward into land.