Jurassic accretion tectonics of Japan

Island Arc

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-51

  Isozaki, Yukio ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretion; Asia; Japan; Jurassic; Nappe; Oceanic plate stratigraphy; Orogeny; Radiolaria; Subduction; Tectonic erosion

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ARC/TRENCH SYSTEM; JURASSIC; TECTONICS;

JAPAN;

EID: 0030779124     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.1997.tb00039.x     Document Type: Article

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