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It is therefore concluded that strike-slip faulting as well as subduction of the Pacific Plate have played important roles in the opening of the Japan Sea. Some researchers have also proposed that strike-slip faulting may have played an important role in most marginal basins that have existed in the past.
References Jolivet, L, Tamaki, T, and Fournier, M, 1994. Japan Sea, opening history and mechanism: A synthesis, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 99, No. B11, p. 22,237-22,259. Otofuji, Y.I., 1996. Large tectonic movement of the Japan Arc in late Cenozoic times inferred from paleomagnetism: Review and synthesis, The Island Arc, Vol. 5/3, p. 229-249.
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