By Asahiko Taira
In accordance with Cretaceous-Tertiary accretionary sequences of the Shimanto Belt in Japan, the advanced background of those tremendously uncovered rocks is summarized via a sequence of outcrop- to microscopic scale photos, sketches, and geological maps, so much of that are in complete color. This atlas broadens the bottom of normal wisdom of the expansion of continental margins, and gives either a normal creation to analyze in accretionary prisms in addition to an schooling relief for college kids in sedimentology, structural geology and tectonics.
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