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Bending-Related Topographic Structures of the Subducting Plate in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean

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Accretionary Prisms and Convergent Margin Tectonics in the Northwest Pacific Basin

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Elongated topographic structures associated with bending of the ­subducting oceanic plate along the western Kuril, Japan and northern ­Izu-Ogasawara trenches, were investigated using available multibeam bathymetric data. Magnetic anomaly lineations were also reidentified using available geomagnetic data to reveal controlling factors for strikes of bending-related topographic structures. The new bathymetric map demonstrates that most of bending-related topographic structures exist in the oceanward trench slopes deeper than 5,600 m. The map reveals that bending-related topographic structures are developed parallel to the trench axis or inherited seafloor spreading fabrics. Detailed identification of magnetic anomalies reveals curved lineations and discontinuity of lineations associated with ­propagation ridges. A trough with elongated escarpments associated with the propagating ridge in mid-Cretaceous Quiet Period was discovered near the trench-trench-trench triple junction. Comparison between the detailed bathymetric and magnetic anomaly lineation maps elucidates that abyssal hill fabrics were reactivated where the angle between abyssal hill fabrics and trench axis is less than about 30°. The topographic expression of bending-related structures are classified into two types according to whether new faults develop parallel to the trench axis or inherited seafloor spreading fabrics reactivate.

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Acknowledgments

The author expresses his deep thanks to Yujiro Ogawa for the opportunity to do this work. The author is grateful to Edward L. Winterer for suggesting a number of improvements to the manuscript. The author is also grateful to the captains, crews, and scientific parties of the cruises for cooperation to collect bathymetric and/or geomagnetic data (KH-90-1, KH-92-3, KH-96-3, KH-03-1, KH-06-1, MR99-K04, KR99-11, KR04-08, KR06-03, YK08-09, MR08-02, MR08-03, MR08-04, MR08-05, MR08-06, and MR09-03). The author acknowledges the staff of JHOD for offering of their bathymetric and magnetic data for this study. The author would like to thank Steve S. Cande, Dru Clark and the staff of the Geological Data Center, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, for providing bathymetric data for three cruises. The author is grateful to Makoto Yamano for permission to use the data collected in the KR08-10 cruise for this study. Acknowledgement is also made to JAMSTEC and NOAA/NGDC for providing bathymetric and magnetic data. The author would like to thank Yujiro Ogawa, Yildirim Dilek, and Tomoyuki Sasaki for helpful comments.

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    Masao Nakanishi

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Nakanishi, M. (2011). Bending-Related Topographic Structures of the Subducting Plate in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. In: Ogawa, Y., Anma, R., Dilek, Y. (eds) Accretionary Prisms and Convergent Margin Tectonics in the Northwest Pacific Basin. Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8885-7_1

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