Cenozoic intracontinental dextral motion in the Okhotsk-Japan Sea Region

• Published in: Tectonics
• Main Authors: Jolivet, Laurent, Fournier, Marc, Huchon, Philippe, Rozhdestvenskiy, Vitali S., Sergeyev, Konstantin F., Oscorbin, Leonid
• Other Authors: Département de Géologie, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), 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)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 1992
• Subjects: geo; archi; Noto; Okhotsk; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1029/92TC00337; https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00726600/file/92TC00337.pdf; https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00726600

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...