Geological history of the land area between Okinawa Jima and Miyako Jima of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and its phylogeographical significance for the terrestrial …

N Watanabe, K Arai, M Otsubo, M Toda… - Progress in Earth and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The modern and Late Pleistocene terrestrial fauna of Miyako Jima and adjacent
islands (the Miyako Islands) in the southern Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, includes …

Widespread misperception about a major East Asian biogeographic boundary exposed through bibliographic survey and biogeographic meta‐analysis

S Komaki - Journal of Biogeography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The Watase line, a major biogeographic boundary between Palearctic and
Oriental realms in East Asia, is generally drawn between Akuseki and Kodakara Islands of …

A newly discovered submerged reef on the Miyako-Sone platform, Ryukyu Island Arc, Northwestern Pacific

K Arai, H Matsuda, K Sasaki, H Machiyama… - Marine Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
Bathymetric echosounder mapping and seafloor observations using a remotely operated
vehicle were conducted on the Miyako-Sone platform, located northeast of Miyako-jima …

[HTML][HTML] Paleoenvironmental significance of growth story of long-living deep-water acervulinid macroids from Kikai-jima shelf, Central Ryukyu Islands, Japan

D Bassi, JC Braga, R Asami, K Goto, S Szidat… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Macroids are unattached centimetre-sized nodules built by encrusting invertebrates.
Encrusting foraminifera (Acervulina inhaerens) and subordinate thin coralline algae form …

Detailed volcanic morphology of Daisan-Miyako Knoll in the southern Ryukyu Arc

H Minami, Y Ohara - Marine Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
High-resolution bathymetric mapping using an autonomous underwater vehicle and a
survey vessel was conducted at Daisan–Miyako Knoll in the southern Ryukyu Arc. This …

Characterization of water masses around the southern Ryukyu Islands based on isotopic compositions

AD Cruz Salmeron, H Takayanagi, S Wakaki… - Progress in Earth and …, 2022 - Springer
We investigated the water-mass structure on the Okinawa Trough and Pacific sides of the
southern Ryukyu Island Arc (Yonaguni, Iriomote, and Ishigaki subareas) using the Nd …

Western Pacific

A Kato, M Baba, S Matsuda, Y Iryu - Rhodolith/maërl beds: a global …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Western Pacific is one of the regions where rhodolith beds are abundant.
However, the studies of the rhodolith beds and rhodoliths themselves have been conducted …

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N Watanabe, K Arai, M Otsubo, M Toda… - 2023 - progearthplanetsci.springeropen …
Abstract The modern and Late Pleistocene terrestrial fauna of Miyako Jima and adjacent
islands (the Miyako Islands) in the southern Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, includes …

Magmatism and tectonism in the Ryukyu Arc and Okinawa Trough revealed by the Japan Coast Guard's AUV high-resolution mapping.

H Minami - 2021 - aquadocs.org
The Ryukyu subduction zone in the Western Pacific, extending from Japan to Taiwan, forms
a typical trench (Ryukyu Trench)-arc (Ryukyu Arc)-back-arc basin (Okinawa Trough) system …

Quaternary multi-proxy analysis of the paleoenvironment, paleogeography and active tectonics of the Corinth Isthmus

AE Pallikarakis - 2018 - dspace.aua.gr
This Ph. D. aims to shed light upon the interaction between the tectonic movements and the
paleoenvironmental changes. The goal is to determine the tectonic uplift and the …