Repeated occurrence of surface-sediment remobilization along the landward slope of the Japan Trench by great earthquakes
Abstract Deep-sea turbidites have been utilized to understand the history of past large earthquakes. Surface-sediment remobilization is considered to be a mechanism for the initiation of earthquake-induced turbidity currents, based on the studies on the event deposits formed by recent great earthqua...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2020-08-01
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| Series: | Earth, Planets and Space |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-020-01241-y |