▪ 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 …

A plate tectonic model for the Cenozoic development of the region of SE Asia and the SW
Pacific is presented and its implications are discussed. The model is accompanied by …

Geometry of basins can indicate their tectonic origin whether they are small or large. The
basins of Bohai Gulf, South China Sea, East China Sea, Japan Sea, Andaman Sea, Okhotsk …

Asia has been a major testing ground for various competing models of continental
deformation due to its relatively well-understood plate boundary conditions in the Cenozoic …

The discovery of metal-depositing hot springs on the sea floor, and especially their link to
chemosynthetic life, was among the most compelling and significant scientific advances of …

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 …

Simultaneous breakthroughs in our understanding of plate-tectonic processes, depositional
systems, subsidence mechanisms, chronostratigraphy, and basin-exploration methods have …

We investigate crustal deformation in southwest Japan over a 3‐year period revealed by a
permanent dense Global Positioning System (GPS) array. Southwest Japan is a part of the …

Ophiolite assemblages record structural, magmatic, and metamorphic processes that
preceded their entrapment in orogenic belts by continental plate collisions. Ophiolite genetic …

A variety of atypical plume-like structures and focused upwellings that are not rooted in the
lower mantle have recently been discussed, and seismological imaging has shown …