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List of geological belts of Japan

This list is of the geological belts (帯, tai), the structural geotectonic units, of Japan.[1]: 178  The Geological Survey of Japan subdivides the Japanese archipelago into twenty-seven belts,[2] though these are subject to scholarly revision and local variation as to naming.[1]: 169, 178–180  (For instance, the Geological Survey of Japan has the North(ern) Kitakami Belt extending into the Oshima Peninsula and beyond in southwest Hokkaidō,[2] while Isozaki et al. (2010) and Barnes (2013) write of the N(orthern) Kitakami-Oshima Belt,[3]: 1001 [1]: 181  and Takahashi et al. (2016) recognize the North Kitakami Belt and the Oshima Belt;[4] Ueda (2016) treats the "Rebun-Kabato Belt" as a sub-belt of this Oshima Belt (i.e., Rebun-Kabato Sub-belt).[5]: 204 )

List of belts edit

The twenty-seven belts according to the Geological Survey of Japan are as follows:[2]

  • Hida Belt (飛騨帯)
  • Hida Gaien Belt (飛弾外縁帯)
  • Sangun-Renge Belt (三郡 – 蓮華帯)
  • Suo Belt (周防帯)
  • Akiyoshi Belt (秋吉帯)
  • Maizuru Belt (舞鶴帯)
  • Ultra-Tamba Belt (超丹波帯)
  • Tamba Belt (丹波帯)
  • Mino Belt (美濃帯)
  • Ryōke Belt (領家帯)
  • Higo Belt (肥後帯)
  • Nagasaki Belt (長崎帯)
  • Sanbagawa Belt (三波川帯)
  • Chichibu Belt (秩父帯)
  • Kurosegawa Belt (黒瀬川帯)
  • Shimanto Belt (四万十帯)
  • Ashio Belt (足尾帯)
  • Jōetsu Belt (上越帯)
  • Abukuma Belt (阿武隈帯)
  • South Kitakami Belt (南部北上帯)
  • Nedamo Belt (根田茂帯)
  • North Kitakami Belt (北部北上帯)
  • Sorachi–Yezo Belt (空知 – エゾ帯)
  • Kamuikotan Belt (神居古潭帯)
  • Hidaka and Tokoro Belts (日高帯・常呂帯)
  • Hidaka Metamorphic Belt (日高変成帯)
  • Nemuro Belt (根室帯)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Barnes, Gina (2013). "Origins of Japan—the 'Big Picture' Revisited: A Review of New Plate Tectonics Research". Japan Review. 25. International Research Center for Japanese Studies: 169–184. doi:10.15055/00000180.
  2. ^ a b c 日本列島の地質と構造 [Geology and Structure of the Japanese Islands] (in Japanese). Geological Survey of Japan. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  3. ^ Isozaki Yukio; et al. (2010). 日本列島の地体構造区分再訪 ― 太平洋型(都城型)造山帯構成単元 および境界の分類・定義 ― [Geotectonic Subdivision of the Japanese Islands Revisited: Categorization and Definition of Elements and Boundaries of Pacific-type (Miyashiro-type) Orogen]. Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi) (in Japanese and English). 119 (6): 999–1053. doi:10.5026/jgeography.119.999.
  4. ^ Takahashi Satoshi; et al. (2016). 北部北上帯の亜帯区分と渡島帯・南部秩父帯との対比：安家西方地域のジュラ紀付加体の検討 [Subdivisional scheme of the North Kitakami Belt, Northeast Japan and its tectonostratigraphic correlation to the Oshima and South Chichibu belts: an examination of the Jurassic accretionary complex in the west Akka area]. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan (in Japanese and English). 122 (1): 1–22. doi:10.5575/geosoc.2015.0034.
  5. ^ Ueda Hayato (2016). "Hokkaido". In Moreno, T.; Wallis, S.; Kojima, T.; Gibbons, W. (eds.). The Geology of Japan. London: The Geological Society. pp. 201–221. ISBN 978-1-86239-743-9.

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