Cretaceous episodic growth of the Japanese Islands

Island Arc

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 52-68

  Kimura, G ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretionary complex; Hokkaido; Late Cretaceous; Orogeny; Shimanto; Subduction; Western Pacific

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL GROWTH; CRETACEOUS; SUBDUCTION; TECTONICS;

JAPAN;

EID: 0030774845     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.1997.tb00040.x     Document Type: Article

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