Late Cenozoic volcanic activity in the Chugoku area, southwest Japan arc during back-arc basin opening and reinitiation of subduction

Island Arc

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 22-45

  Kimura, Jun Ichi ^a   Kunikiyo, Tomoyuki ^a   Osaka, Isaku ^a   Nagao, Takashi ^b   Yamauchi, Seiki ^a   Kakubuchi, Susumu ^c   Okada, Shomei ^d   Fujibayashi, Norie ^e   Okada, Ryuhei ^f   Murakami, Hisashi ^g   Kusano, Takashi ^h   Umeda, Koji ⁱ   Hayashi, Shintaro ^j   Ishimaru, Tsuneari ⁱ   Ninomiya, Atusi ^k   Tanase, Atsushi ^l  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Cosmo Construction Consultant ^*  (Japan)

^g Kobe University ^*  (Japan)

^h KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^j AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k Sumiko Consultants Co Ltd   (Japan)

^l Sumiko Consultants Co Ltd   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Arc magmatism; Back arc basin opening; Chugoku area; K Ar age; Late Cenozoic; Subduction reinitiation

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; CENOZOIC; ISLAND ARC; MAGMATISM; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANISM;

JAPAN;

EID: 0037340634     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1738.2003.00377.x     Document Type: Article

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