History_of_Geology on Nostr: Now known as Wadati–Benioff zone, as Kiyoo Wadati of the Japan Meteorological ...

Now known as Wadati–Benioff zone, as Kiyoo Wadati of the Japan Meteorological Agency independently (and even a few years earlier) published a paper on deep-focus earthquakes, describing how they follow a planar surface, but it was Benioff who proposed a mechanism related to plate tectonics
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