Formation and Applications of the Sedimentary Record in Arc Collision Zones

Links among mountain building, surface erosion, and growth of an accretionary prism in a subduction zone—An example from southwest Japan
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Published:January 01, 2008
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Gaku Kimura, Yujin Kitamura, Asuka Yamaguchi, Hugues Raimbourg, 2008. "Links among mountain building, surface erosion, and growth of an accretionary prism in a subduction zone—An example from southwest Japan", Formation and Applications of the Sedimentary Record in Arc Collision Zones, Amy E. Draut, Peter. D. Clift, David W. Scholl
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The relationships between mountain building, surface erosion, sediment supply to the trench, and growth of the accretionary prism are examined in southwest Japan and the Nankai Trough. Mountain building caused by the subduction of the Philippine Sea plate in the Nankai Trough and collision in central Japan has resulted in a rock uplift rate of ∼4 mm/yr. Surface denudation rates in the mountain regions are on the order of 3–4 mm/yr, resulting from the heavy rainfall of the Asian monsoon. This fact suggests that mountain building is almost in an equilibrium stage in which surface erosion and rock uplift balance...
- accretionary wedges
- Akaishi Mountains
- Asia
- basins
- climate
- denudation
- drainage
- earthquakes
- erosion
- erosion rates
- Far East
- geomorphology
- great earthquakes
- Honshu
- Japan
- Japanese Alps
- landslides
- mass movements
- mathematical methods
- monsoons
- Nankai Trough
- North Pacific
- Northwest Pacific
- ocean floors
- orogeny
- Pacific Ocean
- Philippine Sea Plate
- plate tectonics
- seismotectonics
- subduction
- subduction zones
- submarine canyons
- tectonics
- trenches
- tsunamis
- West Pacific
- southwestern Japan