The basement geology of Japan from A to Z

SR Wallis, K Yamaoka, H Mori, A Ishiwatari… - Island Arc, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Precambrian and lower Paleozoic units of the Japanese basement such as the
Hida Oki and South Kitakami terranes have geological affinities with the eastern Asia …

[HTML][HTML] Lawsonite composition and zoning as tracers of subduction processes: A global review

DL Whitney, KF Fornash, P Kang, ED Ghent, L Martin… - Lithos, 2020 - Elsevier
Lawsonite is an abundant hydrous mineral in oceanic crust, sediments, and metasomatic
rocks at depths of~ 45 to 300 km in most subduction zones, but it is rarely preserved in the …

The Late Paleozoic tectonometamorphic evolution of Patagonia revisited: Insights from the pressure‐temperature‐deformation‐time (P‐T‐D‐t) path of the Gondwanide …

S Oriolo, B Schulz, PD González, F Bechis… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Combined field structural analysis with in situ electron probe microanalysis Th‐U‐Pb
monazite dating, petrologic, and microstructural data provides a reconstruction of the …

Sanbagawa subduction: what went in, how deep, and how hot did it get?

S Endo, Y Kouketsu, M Aoya - Elements, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Sanbagawa belt is a “coherent” oceanic subduction-type metamorphic region
representing a rock package predominantly derived from oceanic crust and accreted at …

Geochronology of the Sanbagawa belt: younger and faster than before

U Knittel, T Tokiwa, Y Tsutsumi, S Endo… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Recent advances in geochronological studies have helped establish the Sanbagawa belt as
an important site for studying metamorphism related to subduction. Application of several …

Latest Triassic and Late Jurassic extensional tectonics of the Sulu UHP orogenic belt, East China: Evidence from geological and geophysical data

L Meng, W Lin, S Li, Y Chu, W Wei, Y Wang, C Song… - Tectonophysics, 2022 - Elsevier
To understand the post-orogenic tectonics related to collision between the North China
Craton (NCC) and the South China Block (SCB), the Northern Sulu massif is a …

Progressive changes in lithological association of the Sanbagawa metamorphic complex, Southwest Japan: Relict clinopyroxene and detrital zircon perspectives

S Endo, K Miyazaki, T Danhara, H Iwano, T Hirata - Island Arc, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The main tectono‐stratigraphic unit (Shirataki unit) of the Sanbagawa metamorphic complex
in central Shikoku is characterized by abundant mafic schist layers that show the mid‐ocean …

Subduction plate interface shear stress associated with rapid subduction at deep slow earthquake depths: example from the Sanbagawa belt, southwestern Japan

Y Koyama, SR Wallis, T Nagaya - Solid Earth, 2024 - se.copernicus.org
Maximum shear stress along an active deformation zone marking the subduction plate
interface is important for understanding earthquake phenomena and is an important input …

Thermal structure in subducted units from continental Moho depths in a palaeo subduction zone, the Asemigawa region of the Sanbagawa metamorphic belt, SW …

Y Kouketsu, K Sadamoto, H Umeda… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Raman CM geothermometry applied to 126 samples of pelitic schists collected over an area
of 11 km× 7 km reveals the thermal structure of the Asemigawa region of the Sanbagawa …

Paleogeography of Late Jurassic large-igneous-province activity in the Paleo-Pacific Ocean: Constraints from the Mikabu greenstones and Chichibu accretionary …

K Tominaga, H Hara - Gondwana Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mikabu Unit (Mikabu greenstones) was an oceanic plateau that was in the
Mesozoic Paleo-Pacific Ocean. Large-igneous-province (LIP) activity has been proposed as …