New insight into a subduction-related orogen: A reappraisal of the geotectonic framework and evolution of the Japanese Islands

Y Isozaki, K Aoki, T Nakama, S Yanai - Gondwana Research, 2010 - Elsevier
The geotectonic framework and the evolutionary history of the Japanese Islands need
revision in accordance with the various geophysical/geological evidence gathered by new …

Recognition of the Shimanto HP metamorphic belt within the traditional Sanbagawa HP metamorphic belt: New perspectives of the Cretaceous–Paleogene tectonics …

K Aoki, S Maruyama, Y Isozaki, S Otoh… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Sanbagawa metamorphic belt in SW Japan has been traditionally referred as a typical
subduction-related high-pressure (HP) metamorphic belt. This belt extends E–W direction for …

Evolution of the Sanbagawa and Shimanto high-pressure belts in SW Japan: Insights from K–Ar (Ar–Ar) geochronology

T Itaya, T Tsujimori, JG Liou - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2011 - Elsevier
The Sanbagawa belt sensu lato in Japan is one of the world's classical high-pressure (HP)
metamorphic belts and has long been considered to be a coherent HP belt of the …

The Fuchuan ophiolite in Jiangnan Orogen: geochemistry, zircon U–Pb geochronology, Hf isotope and implications for the Neoproterozoic assembly of South China

CL Zhang, M Santosh, HB Zou, HK Li, WC Huang - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
The Fuchuan ophiolite occurs along the easternmost domain of the Jiangnan Orogen,
considered as the suture between Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks in South China. Here we …

Clockwise rotation of SW Japan and timing of Izanagi–Pacific ridge subduction revealed by arc migration

K Yamaoka, SR Wallis - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2023 - Springer
Igneous rocks associated with the Cretaceous to Paleogene volcanic arc in SW Japan show
ages that young from west to east in a direction parallel to the Median Tectonic Line …

Linking Pacific plate motions to metamorphism and magmatism in Japan during Cretaceous to Paleogene times

J Wu, TJ Wu, K Yamaoka - Elements, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Plate reconstructions of oceanic domains are generally based on paleo-magnetic and
seafloor spreading records. However, uncertainties associated with such reconstructions …

Paired metamorphic belts of SW Japan: the geology of the Sanbagawa and Ryoke metamorphic belts and the Median Tectonic Line

SR Wallis, T Okudaira - 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The idea of paired metamorphic belts proposed by Miyashiro (1961, 1973) links the
presence of parallel belts of high and low heat flow along convergent margins with paired …

Detrital zircons from the Tananao metamorphic complex of Taiwan: Implications for sediment provenance and Mesozoic tectonics

TF Yui, K Maki, CY Lan, T Hirata, HT Chu, Y Kon… - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
Taiwan formed during the Plio-Pleistocene collision of Eurasia with the outboard Luzon arc.
Its pre-Tertiary basement, the Tananao metamorphic complex, consists of the western …

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 …

Metamorphic P–T–time history of the Sanbagawa belt in central Shikoku, Japan and implications for retrograde metamorphism during exhumation

K Aoki, K Kitajima, H Masago, M Nishizawa… - Lithos, 2009 - Elsevier
The peak metamorphic conditions and processes of the Cretaceous Sanbagawa HP
metamorphic belt, central Shikoku, Japan, were examined based on petrological …