if you know there are ocean trenches and ridges in japan, can you show me a picture of where around japan?Are there any ocean trenches and ridges in japan?
Yes it appears Japan is sitting right on top of an ocean trench.Are there any ocean trenches and ridges in japan?
Aleutian Islands
subduction of Pacific Plate under North America (Bering Sea component)
angle of subduction is increasing oblique toward the west, resulting in slower subduction, fewer volcanics
chain terminated by Kamchatka Peninsula
Aleutian Trench
water depth of trench increases westward as a result of less sediment input from smaller volcanic islands
almost filled, and extensively over-ridden by Alaskan accretionary prism in the east
Banda Arc
Australian shelf subducting northwestward under Timor
New Guinea-Moluccas subducting south/southwestward under Ceram
Banda Sea on over-riding plate
most of the islands in this arc are forearc ridge islands
see Kearey and Vine p. 202 for details
Bonin Islands
minor volcanic chain north of the Marianas
most immature of island arcs (youngest too?) - boninites (high Fe ol-opx andesites)
Dzhugdzhur Range
northwestern margin of Sea of Okhotsk, extension of Verkhoyansk Range
collision of Okhotsk shelf with East Siberian (Aldan) Shield
locus of earthquakes that mark an incipient, poorly defined collisional boundary between North American plate and Eurasian plate
Emperor Seamount Chain
older part of Hawaii-Emperor Seamount Chain (%26gt; 42 Ma)
extends from Midway Island to Kamchatka
Hokkaido
northernmost Japanese island, extends northeast into Kuril Islands
composed of multiple island arcs through much of the Phanerozoic
Honshu
main island of Japan
northern half (north of Tokyo) is a typical mature island arc, with Pacific plate subducting below North American plate
southern half (south of Tokyo) is a typical mature island arc, with Philippine Sea plate subducting below Eurasian plate
Izu Islands
northernmost extension of the Mariana-Bonin-Izu arcs, extending south from Izu Peninsula, Japan
immature island arc
Japan Sea Basin
complex basin between Japan and Korea/Russia
opened mainly in the Tertiary
central ridge (Yamato Ridge) may be half of a rifted arc
Japan Trench
extension of the Nankai Trench south
subduction of Pacific Plate below Izu-Bonin Islands
Kamchatka
volcanic peninsula in eastern Siberia
northward extension of the Kuril Islands
Kuril Backarc Basin
deep basin in southern Sea of Okhotsk northwest of Kuril arc
Kuril Islands
island arc between Hokkaido and Kamchatka
Kuril Trench
subduction trench of Pacific plate under North American plate
extends from offshore central Kamchatka to Hokkaido
Mariana Islands
classic young island arc setting
very high-angle subduction because this is the area of the oldest, coldest (subducting) ocean floor
deepest trench in the world (%26gt;10 km) because of cold ocean floor + virtually no sediment input
Mindinao Trench
long trench extending from central Philippines south to Indonesian islands
subduction of Philippine Sea plate below Philippine arc
Nankai Trough
name given to northern part of Japan Trench, north of Tokyo
New Guinea
large island, geologically the leading edge of the Australian plate
in collision with several small arcs (New Britain, New Ireland, Banda) and Ontong-Java Plateau
Ontong-Java Plateau
large submarine ancient hot-spot volcanic plateau
thickened Layer 2 oceanic crust, too buoyant to subduct, ';clogs up'; the west Pacific subduction zones north New Guinea and Solomon Islands
Parece Vela Basin
inactive back arc marginal basin with high heat flow in the eastern Philippine Sea
subduction now stepped east to the Mariana arc
Philippine Islands
large and complex mature volcanic arc
west vergent subduction of the Philippine Sea plate on the east; east vergent subduction of the South China, Sulu and Celebes seas on the west
Ryukyu Islands
island arc extending from Kyushu to Taiwan
Philippine Sea plate subducting below Eurasia
Sakhalin
island north of Hokkaido
probably the product of transpressional tectonics along the North America-Eurasia boundary
Solomon Islands
volcanic arc east of New Guinea
southwestward vergent subduction recently stopped by arrival of Ontong-Java Plateau
subduction now flipped to northeast vergent, Coral Sea (Indo-Australian plate) subduction below Pacific plate
switch in subduction orientation effectively transferred the Solomon Islands from the Indo-Australian plate to the Pacific plate
Taiwan
island uplifted at the intersection of the Ryukyu arc and Philippine arc
Philippine Sea plate subducted below Eurasia
West Philippine Sea Basin
area of Mesozoic ocean floor east of Philippine Archipelago
western half of Philippine
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