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Article: Studies from K. Kawamura et al in the area of geology described.
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- China Weekly News
- Article date:
- November 17, 2009
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According to a study from Tokyo, Japan, "Two research cruises that deployed submersible surveys were undertaken along the Tenryu Submarine Canyon to directly observe the structural architecture of the eastern Nankai Accretionary Prism off the coast of southern Japan. The surveys have demonstrated that the accreted sediments are strongly deformed turbidite sequences that occur in repeated thrust-anticline structures."
"From the leading edge of the prism near the trench toward the arc, the following deformation zones have been identified within the prism: Frontal Thrust zone, Prism Toe zone, Imbricate Thrust zone, and Tokai Thrust zone (or out-of-sequence thrust or ...