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The main unusual feature of tectogenesis of the Asian–Pacific transition zone in the Mesozoic–Cenozoic consists in the formation of left-lateral strike-slip faults, which form the East Asian global shear zone with paragenesis of its constituent variously oriented fault systems. Paragenetic analysis has revealed that continental blocks of the Asian–Pacific transition zone were displaced along systems of transit left-lateral strike-slip faults of the East Asian global shear zone by hundreds of kilometers in the southerly to southwesterly direction due to tectonic activity of the Asian continent, which drifted southwestward. This process was accompanied by the formation of compression and extension structures. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain the structuring of the overhanging margin of the continent by subduction of oceanic lithospheric plates in the northerly to northwesterly direction opposite relative to the displacement of the continental crust as is usually thought.
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Original Russian Text © V.P. Utkin, 2016, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2016, Vol. 467, No. 3, pp. 314–319.
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Utkin, V.P. What is responsible for development of the Asian–Pacific transition zone: The geodynamics of oceanic plates or the Asian continent?. Dokl. Earth Sc. 467, 249–254 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X16030223
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