documented from detailed biostratigraphy and radiometric dating of metamorphic rocks. The
latest Cretaceous to early Paleogene rapid growth of the accretionary complexes observed
in Hokkaido and Sakhalin Islands was caused by the supply of a large amount of
terrigenous sediments from an intracontinent collision zone: the Mongolia‐Okhotsk zone in
the northern Asian continent. Rapid growth of the accretionary prism resulted in episodic …