Origin of the early Cenozoic belt boundary thrust and Izanagi–Pacific ridge subduction in the western Pacific margin

• Main Authors: Kimura, Gaku, Kitamura, Yujin, Yamaguchi, Asuka, Kameda, Jun, Hashimoto, Yoshitaka, Hamahashi, Mari
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Accretionary Prism; East Asian Margin Tectonics; Science::Geology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90311; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50479
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The belt boundary thrust within the Cretaceous–Neogene accretionary complex of the Shimanto Belt, southwestern Japan, extends for more than ~ 1 000 km along the Japanese islands. A common understanding of the origin of the thrust is that it is an out of sequence thrust as a result of continuous accr...