Paleogeographic maps of the Japanese Islands: Plate tectonic synthesis from 750 Ma to the present

Island Arc

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 121-142

  Maruyama, Shigenori ^a   Isozaki, Yukio ^a   Kimura, Gaku ^b   Terabayashi, Masaru ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Back arc; Collision; Japan; Pacific Ocean; Paleogeography; Rifted margin; Subduction; Supercontinent; Superplume; Yangtze

Indexed keywords

PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; PHANEROZOIC; PLATE TECTONIC; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

JAPAN; PACIFIC;

EID: 0030791852     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.1997.tb00043.x     Document Type: Article

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