Neogene strike-slip fäulting in Sakhalin and the Japan Sea o penin g

• Main Authors: Marchour Nier, Laurent Jolivet, Konstantin F. Sergeyev, Leonid S. Oscorbin
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Noto; Sakhalin
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.629.8045; http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/b_fdi_39-40/43480.pdf

We describe structural data from a 2000 km N-S dextral strike-slip zone extending f rom northem Sakhalin to the southeast comer of the Japan Sea. Satellite images, field data, and focal mechanisms of earthquakes in Sakhalin are included in the interpretation. Since Miocene time the deformation in Sa...