The Ryukyu Arc is an island arc which extends from the south of Kyushu along the Ryukyu Islands to the northeast of Taiwan, spanning about 1,200 kilometres...
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Ryukyu Islands (琉球列島, Ryūkyū-rettō), also known as the Nansei Islands (南西諸島, Nansei-shotō, lit. "Southwest Islands") or the Ryukyu Arc (琉球弧, Ryūkyū-ko)...
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back arc region parallel to the trench, a transect spanning the trench, fore arc and back arc region, and a transect spanning the Ryukyu volcanic arc. The...
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The Ryukyu dog (琉球犬, Ryūkyū-inu or Ryūkyū-ken) is an endangered, medium-sized, Japanese breed of dog indigenous to Okinawa and Ishigaki Island. There...
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consists of three island arcs from north to south: the Northeastern Japan Arc, the Southwestern Japan Arc, and the Ryukyu Island Arc. The Daitō Islands, the...
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Okinawa Trough (category Back-arc basins)
"China-Ryukyu Border Trough") is a seabed feature of the East China Sea. It is an active, initial back-arc rifting basin which has formed behind the Ryukyu arc-trench...
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"Quaternary Paleo-Geography of the Ryukyu Arc". Journal of Geography. 105 (3). 1996. "Construction and breakup of the Ryukyu Landbridge and their tectonic...
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Ryukyu or Ryukyuan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Ryukyu Islands are a volcanic arc archipelago. Ryukyu may also refer to: Kingdom of Ryukyu...
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the Ryukyu Trench and the island arc that forms the Ryukyu Islands. The Okinawa Plate is bounded on the western side by the Okinawa Trough, a back arc basin...
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Plate is in contrast subducting beneath the Eurasian Plate, forming the Ryukyu Arc. Taiwan's Central Weather Administration (CWA) measured the earthquake's...
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transporting larvae from southerly coral reefs to downstream reefs along the Ryukyu Arc. Western boundary currents are used by certain species of squid for rapid...
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Ryukyu Arc 1995, Miyakojima). He is buried in Jerusalem on Rechov Emek Refa'im 1981: NHK 女性手帳 (NHK Jyosei Techō) "琉球狐の女たちよ" (≈ "Women of the Ryukyu Arc")...
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in the middle of the Yonaguni Depression, a relatively deep gap in the Ryukyu arc, where the warm Kuroshio Current enters the East China Sea from the Philippine...
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Subduction zones with high obliquity angles include Sunda trench (ca. 60°) and Ryukyu arc (ca. 50°). Obliquity in plate convergence causes differences in dipping...
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Island arcs are long chains of active volcanoes with intense seismic activity found along convergent tectonic plate boundaries. Most island arcs originate...
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Survey Institute, 25000:1 薩摩硫黄島, 50000:1 開聞岳 Geology Age of rock Holocene Mountain type Stratovolcano Volcanic arc/belt Ryukyu arc Last eruption June 2013...
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Volcanic Arc Aleutian Islands Kuril Islands Northeastern Japan Arc Japanese Archipelago including the Ryukyu Islands Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc: Izu Islands...
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volcanic province, constituting the western end of the island chains of the Ryukyu arc. Five separate bodies can be distinguished: Chilungshan (Mount Keelung)...
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contrast subducting northwards beneath the Eurasian Plate, forming the Ryukyu Arc. Within 200 km of this earthquake, there have been nine events of M≥7...
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Plate is in contrast subducting beneath the Eurasian Plate, forming the Ryukyu Arc. The earthquake had a moment-magnitude of 8.2 according to the International...
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one of the administrative divisions of the Ryukyu Kingdom Shimajiri Group, a geological group of the Ryukyu Arc This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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Kaminonejima (category Ryukyu Islands)
positioned 2.4 kilometers south of Kaminone. Tokara Islands Yokoate-jima Ryukyu Islands "十島村公式サイト". www.tokara.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-08-19. v...
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The Ryukyu independence movement (琉球独立運動, Ryūkyū Dokuritsu Undō) or the Republic of the Ryukyus (Japanese: 琉球共和国, Kyūjitai: 琉球共和國, Hepburn: Ryūkyū Kyōwakoku)...
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abstract) Katanoda, Itsurō (1999). Ryūkyū ko/noyama no hana From Amai: taiyō no okurimono 琉球弧・野山の花 From Amami: 太陽の贈り物 [Ryukyu Arc/flowers of the fields and mountains;...
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Japonic languages (redirect from Japanese-Ryukyu languages)
languages were originally and traditionally spoken throughout the Ryukyu Islands, an island arc stretching between the southern Japanese island of Kyushu and...
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northeastward and made several landfalls and close approaches over the islands of Ryukyu Arc. It started weakening while in cold waters and brought rains to Southern...
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25000:1 中之島, 50000:1 中之島 Geology Age of rock Late Pleistocene-Holocene Mountain type stratovolcano Volcanic arc/belt Ryukyu arc Last eruption October 1944...
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subduction process" "Can Great Earthquakes Occur in the Southernmost Ryukyu Arc-Taiwan Region?" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 4,...
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Nansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests (category Flora of the Ryukyu Islands)
terrestrial ecoregion of the Ryukyu Islands, also known as the Nansei Islands, in Japan. The Nansei Islands are an island arc that stretches southwest from...
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"Miocene sandstone of 'continental' origin on Iriomote Island, southwest Ryukyu Arc, Eastern Asia". Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 24 (2): 137–144. Bibcode:2004JAESc...
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