TY - JOUR
AU1 - Hamburger, Michael W.
AU2 - Isacks, Bryan L.
AB - Earthquake distribution and focal mechanisms from the Lau and North Fiji back-arc basins indicate a diffuse and shear-dominated system of deformation, at odds with traditional plate tectonic models of lithospheric accretion in back-arc basins. The entire back-arc region between the Tonga and New Hebrides arcs is more realistically modelled as a giant, internally deformed, pull-apart basin, formed along a left step in the transform boundary between the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates.
TI - Diffuse back-arc deformation in the southwestern Pacific
JF - Nature
DO - 10.1038/332599a0
DA - 1988-04-14
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/diffuse-back-arc-deformation-in-the-southwestern-pacific-286eUKls0z
SP - 599
EP - 604
VL - 332
IS - 6165
DP - DeepDyve
ER -