Palaeogeographic reconstruction of the 1.55 Ma synchronous isolation of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and Taiwan and inflow of the Kuroshio warm current

Osozawa, Soichi; Shinjo, Ryuichi; Armid, Alrum; Watanabe, Yasushi; Horiguchi, Toshiaki; Wakabayashi, John

doi:10.1080/00206814.2011.639954

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Palaeogeographic reconstruction of the 1.55 Ma synchronous isolation of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and Taiwan and inflow of the Kuroshio warm current

Published in International Geology Review • Dec 19, 2011

Authors:

Soichi Osozawa

Ryuichi Shinjo

Alrum Armid

Abstract

In the Quaternary, the Ryukyu Islands evolved from a continental margin arc to an island arc by backarc spreading of the Okinawa Trough, accompanied by subsidence and isolation of the islands, a process that has continued to the present. Trough-parallel half grabens were filled with marine siltstone...

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Geology

Current (fluid)

Inflow

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