Dear Andrea,
It is a controversial issue depending on where the southwestern boundary
of Okhotsk Plate should be considered - passing along the
Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line (Central Honshu), or Hidaka collision
zone (central Hokkaido). Looking at recently calculated GPS plate
velocities (Steblov et al., 2003) the boundary is along the Hidaka
collision zone.
Funny but in any case Japan should be considered as located on two
continents, as the other four such countries (excluding colonies.) The
only one over three is Russia.
You may refer to some recent and not so recent articles, such as:
Altis, S., 2001, Tectonophysics, 339, 311-329;
Jolivet, L., 1986/87, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 81, 282-288;
Seno, T., 1985, Tectonophysics, 115, 177-196;
Steblov et al., 2003, Geoph. Res. Lett., 30, 18, doi:10.1029/2003GL017805;
Taira, A., 2001, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 29, 109-134;
Takahashi et al., 1999, Geoph. Res. Lett., 29, 16, 2533–2536.
Regards,
Tzvetan Dilov,
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Andrea Bruestle wrote:
>Hello!
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>Do anybody know well about the tectonic setting of Japan and the Sea of
>Japan? In some maps it was sign that the northern part of Japan is part of
>the Northamerican Plate, in some maps the northern part of Japan is part of
>the Eurasian Plate!?
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>Thanks a lot
>
>Andrea Brüstle
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