Cenozoic intracontinental dextral motion in the Okhotsk-Japan Sea Region
Laurent Jolivet est Professeur à l'Université d'Orléans au 1er Septembre 2009 International audience A right-lateral shear zone trending northerly along more than 2000 km is recognized from central Japan to northern Sakhalin. It was active mainly during the Neogene and has accommodated sev...
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ftinsu:oai:HAL:insu-00726600v1 2023-12-10T09:53:18+01:00 Cenozoic intracontinental dextral motion in the Okhotsk-Japan Sea Region Jolivet, Laurent Fournier, Marc Huchon, Philippe Rozhdestvenskiy, Vitali S. Sergeyev, Konstantin F. Oscorbin, Leonid Département de Géologie École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL) Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans (ISTO) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris (iSTeP) Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics FEB RAS (IMGG) Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS) 1992 https://insu.hal.science/insu-00726600 https://insu.hal.science/insu-00726600/document https://insu.hal.science/insu-00726600/file/92TC00337.pdf https://doi.org/10.1029/92TC00337 en eng HAL CCSD American Geophysical Union (AGU) info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1029/92TC00337 insu-00726600 https://insu.hal.science/insu-00726600 https://insu.hal.science/insu-00726600/document https://insu.hal.science/insu-00726600/file/92TC00337.pdf doi:10.1029/92TC00337 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0278-7407 EISSN: 1944-9194 Tectonics https://insu.hal.science/insu-00726600 Tectonics, 1992, 11 (5), pp.968-977. ⟨10.1029/92TC00337⟩ [SDU.STU.TE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Tectonics [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 1992 ftinsu https://doi.org/10.1029/92TC00337 2023-11-15T17:23:36Z Laurent Jolivet est Professeur à l'Université d'Orléans au 1er Septembre 2009 International audience A right-lateral shear zone trending northerly along more than 2000 km is recognized from central Japan to northern Sakhalin. It was active mainly during the Neogene and has accommodated several hundreds of kilometers of displacement. The whole structure of Sakhalin is built on this shear zone. En échelon sigmoidal folds and thrusts, en échelon narrow Miocene basins, and a major discontinuity which is observed along more than 600 km, the Tym-Poronaisk fault, characterize the deformation there. In Hokkaido, en échelon folds and thrusts and a ductile shear zone with high-temperature metamorphism constitute the southern extension of this transpressional shear zone. It continues to the south as a zone of transtensional deformation along the eastern margin of Japan Sea, as en échelon basins and dextral transfer faults observed as far south as Noto peninsula and Yatsuo basin. The style of the shear zone thus evolves from transpressional in the north far from the subduction zone, to transtensional in the south in the back-arc region. Strike-slip motion along this shear zone was primarily responsible for the dextral pull-apart opening of Japan Sea during the early and middle Miocene. Dextral motion is still active in the north along the Tym-Poronaisk fault in Sakhalin as well as on the continental margin of Japan Sea (Korea and Asia mainland). Active E-W compression replaced the dextral motion along the eastern margin of Japan Sea in late Miocene time, and incipient subduction began in the early Quaternary. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sakhalin Institut national des sciences de l'Univers: HAL-INSU Noto ENVELOPE(-60.811,-60.811,-62.471,-62.471) Okhotsk Tectonics 11 5 968 977 |
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[SDU.STU.TE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Tectonics [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes Jolivet, Laurent Fournier, Marc Huchon, Philippe Rozhdestvenskiy, Vitali S. Sergeyev, Konstantin F. Oscorbin, Leonid Cenozoic intracontinental dextral motion in the Okhotsk-Japan Sea Region |
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Laurent Jolivet est Professeur à l'Université d'Orléans au 1er Septembre 2009 International audience A right-lateral shear zone trending northerly along more than 2000 km is recognized from central Japan to northern Sakhalin. It was active mainly during the Neogene and has accommodated several hundreds of kilometers of displacement. The whole structure of Sakhalin is built on this shear zone. En échelon sigmoidal folds and thrusts, en échelon narrow Miocene basins, and a major discontinuity which is observed along more than 600 km, the Tym-Poronaisk fault, characterize the deformation there. In Hokkaido, en échelon folds and thrusts and a ductile shear zone with high-temperature metamorphism constitute the southern extension of this transpressional shear zone. It continues to the south as a zone of transtensional deformation along the eastern margin of Japan Sea, as en échelon basins and dextral transfer faults observed as far south as Noto peninsula and Yatsuo basin. The style of the shear zone thus evolves from transpressional in the north far from the subduction zone, to transtensional in the south in the back-arc region. Strike-slip motion along this shear zone was primarily responsible for the dextral pull-apart opening of Japan Sea during the early and middle Miocene. Dextral motion is still active in the north along the Tym-Poronaisk fault in Sakhalin as well as on the continental margin of Japan Sea (Korea and Asia mainland). Active E-W compression replaced the dextral motion along the eastern margin of Japan Sea in late Miocene time, and incipient subduction began in the early Quaternary. |
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Département de Géologie École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL) Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans (ISTO) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris (iSTeP) Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics FEB RAS (IMGG) Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS) |
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Cenozoic intracontinental dextral motion in the Okhotsk-Japan Sea Region |
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Cenozoic intracontinental dextral motion in the Okhotsk-Japan Sea Region |
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Cenozoic intracontinental dextral motion in the Okhotsk-Japan Sea Region |
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Cenozoic intracontinental dextral motion in the Okhotsk-Japan Sea Region |
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Cenozoic intracontinental dextral motion in the Okhotsk-Japan Sea Region |
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cenozoic intracontinental dextral motion in the okhotsk-japan sea region |
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ISSN: 0278-7407 EISSN: 1944-9194 Tectonics https://insu.hal.science/insu-00726600 Tectonics, 1992, 11 (5), pp.968-977. ⟨10.1029/92TC00337⟩ |
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