Geology of Japan
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geology-of-japan-186-2265650
title:
Geology of Japan
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Geological Studies The islands of Japan are primarily the result of several large ocean movements occurring over hundreds of millions of years from the mid-Silurian to the Pleistocene, as a result of the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the continental Amurian Plate and Okinawa Plate to the south, and subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Okhotsk Plate to the north. Japan was originally attached to the eastern coast of the Eurasian continent. The subducting plates, being deeper
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Japan
date created:
2005-03-21T00:45:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T22:52:03Z
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