Multiple Tethyan ocean basins and orogenic belts in Asia

I Metcalfe - Gondwana Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Four Tethyan ocean basins are recognised in Asia, the Proto-Tethys (Late Proterozoic-
Silurian), Palaeo-Tethys (Middle Devonian-Late Triassic), Meso-Tethys (Middle Permian …

Tectonic evolution of the Japanese island arc system

A Taira - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Growth of the Japanese arc system, which has mainly taken place along the
continental margin of Asia since the Permian, is the result of subduction of the ancient …

Geochemical and Sr‐Nd isotopic characteristics of volcanic rocks from the Okinawa Trough and Ryukyu Arc: Implications for the evolution of a young, intracontinental …

R Shinjo, SL Chung, Y Kato… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The Okinawa Trough is an incipient intracontinental back arc basin that has developed
behind the Ryukyu arc‐trench system. To explore its magmatic evolution and the nature of …

Anatomy and genesis of a subduction‐related orogen: A new view of geotectonic subdivision and evolution of the Japanese Islands

Y Isozaki - Island Arc, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Japanese Islands represent a segment of a 450 million year old subduction‐
related orogen developed along the western Pacific convergent margin. The geotectonic …

Reinitiation of subduction and magmatic responses in SW Japan during Neogene time

JI Kimura, RJ Stern, T Yoshida - Geological Society of …, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Southwestern Japan during Paleogene time was affected by subduction of the Kula
and Pacific plates beneath the eastern margin of Eurasia, followed by a brief episode of …

Arc-generated blocks with crustal sections in the North Atlantic craton of West Greenland: crustal growth in the Archean with modern analogues

BF Windley, AA Garde - Earth-Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
The ca. 700 km long, Archean craton of West Greenland consists of six Meso–Neoarchean
(ca. 3000–2720 Ma) shear zone—bounded crustal blocks that display similar cross-sections; …

Characteristics of landslides caused by the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake

N Osanai, T Yamada, S Hayashi, S Kastura, T Furuichi… - Landslides, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake struck the eastern Iburi region
(epicenter: 42.691° N, 142.007° E, depth: 37.0 km) of Hokkaido, Japan, at 3: 07.59 JST …

Geochemistry of high Mg andesites and the tectonic evolution of the Okinawa Trough–Ryukyu arc system

R Shinjo - Chemical Geology, 1999 - Elsevier
Mineral chemistry, major-and trace-elements, and Sr–Nd isotopic compositions of high
magnesian andesites and basalt from the central and southern Ryukyu arc, Japan, provide …

Dynamics of the Ryukyu/Izu-Bonin-Marianas double subduction system

C Faccenna, AF Holt, TW Becker, S Lallemand… - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
Trench motions represent the surface expression of the interaction between subducting
plates and the underlying mantle, but the inherent dynamics are not fully understood. One …

Linking granulites, silicic magmatism, and crustal growth in arcs: Ion microprobe (zircon) U-Pb ages from the Hidaka metamorphic belt, Japan

AIS Kemp, T Shimura, CJ Hawkesworth - Geology, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
There is no consensus as to how the extreme metamorphic conditions required to form
granulites are attained, or how these rocks relate to crustal growth and differentiation …