The Mariana convergent plate margin system of the western Pacific provides opportunities
for studying the tectonic and geochemical processes of intraoceanic plate subduction …

The active collision between the Luzon arc and the Asian continent in the Taiwan area is
investigated in terms of plate kinematics and geological records. Regarding plate …

An evolutionary history of the western Pacific is presented by reconstructing the spreading
systems of the region since Middle Mesozoic time on the basis of marine magnetic …

Our reconstruction of the Philippine Sea suggests that it formed by two distinct episodes of
back-arc spreading, each of which resulted from seaward retreat of the trench. In the first …

The Philippine Sea Plate is the one major plate whose Tertiary motion is poorly constrained
and whose origin is problematical. Its southern boundary is the Sorong Fault system which is …

The distribution of large shallow earthquakes along subduction boundaries does not agree
with the distribution pattern that might be predicted from a simple model of plate tectonics …

Intra-oceanic island arc-trench systems represent a locus of crustal thickening through the
addition of mantle-derived magmas which form the volcanoes and subjacent stratiform …

Paleomagnetism is a quantitative tool for determining relative displacements and rotations of
rock bodies in the geological past. During the last 20 years, paleomagnetic work in …

The landward slope of the Mariana Trench is composed largely of igneous rocks.
Serpentinites and serpentinized ultramafic rocks occur at nearly all structural levels on the …

One of the major processes in the formation and deformation of continental lithosphere is the
process of arc volcanism. The plate-tectonic theory predicts that a continuous chain of arc …