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Triassic 40Ar/39Ar ages from the Sakaigawa unit, Kii Peninsula, Japan: implications for possible merger of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt with large-scale tectonic systems of the East Asian margin

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The 218.4 ± 0.4, 228.8 ± 0.9 and 231.9 ± 0.7 Ma 40Ar/39Ar laser probe pseudo-plateau ages (2σ; 49–63% 39Ar-release) of very low-grade meta-pelitic whole-rocks from the Sakaigawa unit date high-P/T metamorphism. We argue that this event occurred in a subduction–accretion complex, not along the East Asian continental margin, but on the Pacific side of the proto-Japan superterrane. Proto-Japan was a Permian magmatic arc, presently dispersed in the Japanese islands, which also contained older subduction–accretion complexes. The arc system was fringing but not yet part of the Eurasian continent. The Middle to Late Triassic high-P/T tectono-metamorphic event was partly coeval with proto-Japan’s collision with proto-Eurasia along the southward extension of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, causing the main metamorphism in the Hida-Oki terrane. It is possible that this system continued via the Cathaysia block (China) to Indochina. The Late Permian to Middle Triassic Indosinian event might stem from docking of Pacific-derived terranes with Southeast Asia’s continental margin. The concept of the proto-Japan superterrane implies that the Qinling-Dabie-Sulu suture zone joined the Central Asian Orogenic Belt to the east of the North China craton and did not continue to Japan, as commonly assumed.

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This study was initiated while the senior author (KdJ) was a visiting scientist at the Geological Survey of Japan (Tsukuba) supported by grants of the European Union and the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology of Japan. The analytical work in France (CNRS, UMR 6526, Géoscience Azur, Nice) was financed by the Geological Survey of Japan. The paper was written while KdJ was associated to the Institute of Advanced Studies Studium® (CNRS and Région Centre) on the invitation of Prof. Michel Faure, while being based at the University of Orléans. The senior author’s interest in subduction–accretion processes in Southeast Asia was raised by Warren Hamilton’s captivating lectures on the tectonics of the Indonesian region delivered as Guest Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Many discussions with my friends Katsumi Kimura and Takashi Nakajima at GSJ greatly improved his knowledge of the intriguing geology of the Japanese islands. KdJ and CK gratefully acknowledge the invitation by Prof. Hideo Takagi (Waseda University, Tokyo) to join an excursion to the Kanto Mountains, enabling to fathom the intricacies of the Paleo-Ryoke terrane. The invitation by Prof. Ching-Hua Lo to visit the Taiwan National University financially supported by the National Science Council of Taiwan by means of grant NCS92-2811-M-0022-016- enabled KdJ to get acquainted with Formosan geology. The paper benefited from insightful comments from topic editor Wenjiao Xiao, and reviews by Brian Windley and Shoufa Lin. Comments on an earlier draft by Richards Spikings are acknowledged.

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    Koen de Jong & Chikao Kurimoto

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de Jong, K., Kurimoto, C. & Ruffet, G. Triassic 40Ar/39Ar ages from the Sakaigawa unit, Kii Peninsula, Japan: implications for possible merger of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt with large-scale tectonic systems of the East Asian margin. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 98, 1529–1556 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-008-0340-1

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