THE VITIM-BONIN DEEP TRANSVERSE SYSTEM

The 'Deep Transverse System' of this article is, or relates to the Fossa Magna graben of Japan which lies on the direct continuation of a great zone of faulting that passes, west of Vladivostok, through the USSR Far Eastern Maritime Province, then northward across Manchuria. The Fossa Magn...

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Main Author: Portniagin,E. A.
Other Authors: DIRECTORATE OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION SERVICES OTTAWA (ONTARIO)
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1966
Subjects:
Geology
Geochemistry and Mineralogy
Seismology
(*STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
ASIA)
CANADA
USSR
JAPAN
JAPAN SEA
OKHOTSK SEA
FAULTS(GEOLOGY)
MANCHURIA
VOLCANOES
EARTHQUAKES
TERRAIN
PACIFIC OCEAN
SIBERIA
Canada
Fossa
Okhotsk
Pacific
Sovetskaya
okhotsk sea
Siberia
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0651464
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Summary:The 'Deep Transverse System' of this article is, or relates to the Fossa Magna graben of Japan which lies on the direct continuation of a great zone of faulting that passes, west of Vladivostok, through the USSR Far Eastern Maritime Province, then northward across Manchuria. The Fossa Magna itself is part of the system of the Bonin-Marianas arc, comprising zones of high geothermal flux and volcanism, and parallel zones of shallow earthquakes and deep earthquakes. The Bonin-Marianas arc meets the Japan arc nearly at right angles and has therefore been called a 'transverse zone.' The author's 'deep transverse system' appears as a continental continuation of the Bonin-Marianas system, and should therefore be compared with the 'lineaments' that spring from the junctions of active arcs. Thus, the author describes two terrains separated by an arc-system 'lineament' of this type. Trans. of Sovetskaya Geologiya (USSR), n7 p143-8 1966.

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