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  2. Japan Median Tectonic Line - Wikipedia

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    The upper part of the Japanese islands was created at the edge of the Eurasian plate 180 million years ago. [citation needed] Then, 50 million years later, the lower part was created at the southern part of the Yangtze continent. The lower part then rode on the Izanagi plate and moved to the upper part. These islands were joined into one and ...

  3. Geology of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Around 23 million years ago, western Japan was a coastal region of the Eurasia continent. The subducting plates, being deeper than the Eurasian plate, pulled parts of Japan which become modern Chūgoku region and Kyushu eastward, opening the Sea of Japan (simultaneously with the Sea of Okhotsk) around 15–20 million years ago, with likely freshwater lake state before the sea has rushed in. [4 ...

  4. List of tectonic plates - Wikipedia

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    These plates are often grouped with an adjacent principal plate on a tectonic plate world map. For purposes of this list, a microplate is any plate with an area less than 1 million km 2 . Some models identify more minor plates within current orogens (events that lead to a large structural deformation of Earth's lithosphere ) like the Apulian ...

  5. Geography of Japan - Wikipedia

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    They are deeper than the Eurasian plate. The Philippine Sea Plate moves beneath the continental Amurian Plate and the Okinawa Plate to the south. The Pacific Plate moves under the Okhotsk Plate to the north. These subduction plates pulled Japan eastward and opened the Sea of Japan by back-arc spreading around 15 million years ago. [16]

  6. The Earth's tectonic plates made the Himalayas — and could ...

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    In the heart of Asia, deep underground, two huge tectonic plates are crashing into each other — a violent but slow-motion bout of geological bumper cars that over time has sculpted the soaring ...

  7. Izanagi plate - Wikipedia

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    The Izanagi plate (named after the Shinto god Izanagi) was an ancient tectonic plate, which began subducting beneath the Okhotsk plate 130–100 Ma (million years ago). The rapid plate motion of the Izanagi plate caused northwest Japan and the outer zone of southwest Japan to drift northward.

  8. List of tectonic plate interactions - Wikipedia

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    Obduction zones occurs when the continental plate is pushed under the oceanic plate, but this is unusual as the relative densities of the tectonic plates favours subduction of the oceanic plate. This causes the oceanic plate to buckle and usually results in a new mid-ocean ridge forming and turning the obduction into subduction. [citation needed]

  9. Nankai Trough - Wikipedia

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    In plate tectonics, the Nankai Trough marks a subduction zone that is caused by subduction of the Philippine Sea plate beneath Japan, part of the Eurasian plate (Kanda et al., 2004). This plate boundary would be an oceanic trench except for a high flux of sediments that fills the trench.