Accretionary Prisms and Convergent Margin Tectonics in the Northwest Pacific Basin

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ogawa, Yujiro (Editor), Anma, Ryo (Editor), Dilek, Yildirim (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, 8
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Structural geology.; Sedimentology.; Geophysics.; Oceanography.; Earth Sciences.; Structural Geology.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

Accretionary prisms in convergent margins are natural laboratories for exploring initial orogenic processes and mountain building episodes.  They are also an important component of continental growth both vertically and laterally. Accretionary prisms are seismically highly active and their internal...