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Abstract
In order to reconstruct the pre-Japan Sea configuration of the Cretaceous arc-trench system, we measured U-Pb ages of detrital zircons in the five sandstone samples from the Yezo Group in Sakhalin using LA-ICP-MS. A sandstone sample from the lowermost horizon (Ai Formation) contains abundant Early Cretaceous (110–100 Ma) zircons with minor amounts of pre-Jurassic ones. Four sandstones from the uppermost (Krasnoyarka Formation) are enriched dominantly in Late Cretaceous (100–66 Ma) grains. The YC1σ ages of these samples are generally consistent with the previous fossil ages; nonetheless, a possible age extension of the Ai Fm up possibly into the Cenomanian was newly suggested. The stepwise younging in peak age of zircons according to the stratigraphy suggests the continuous replacement of arc granitoid exposures in the Cretaceous magmatic arc in the provenance likely developed on the continent side. This secular trend in zircon age spectra of the Yezo Group in Sakhalin is properly correlated with that in Hokkaido and also with that of coeval sandstones in southwest Japan, suggesting a monotonous sedimentation in the fore-arc basin of the Late Cretaceous arc-trench system developed along the Pacific margin, from Sakhalin to southwest Japan for ca. 2500 km in length. Its spatial dimension corresponds to that of the modern representative fore-arc basin in the Java-Sumatra region.
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Island Arc is the official journal of the Geological Society of Japan. This journal focuses on the structure, dynamics and evolution of convergent plate boundaries, including trenches, volcanic arcs, subducting plates, and both accretionary and collisional orogens in modern and ancient settings. The Journal also opens to other key geological processes and features of broad interest such as oceanic basins, mid-ocean ridges, hot spots, continental cratons, and their surfaces and roots. Papers that discuss the interaction between solid earth, atmosphere, and bodies of water are also welcome. Articles of immediate importance to other researchers, either by virtue of their new data, results or ideas are given priority publication.
Island Arc publishes peer-reviewed articles and reviews. Original scientific articles, of a maximum length of 15 printed pages, are published promptly with a standard publication time from submission of 3 months. All articles are peer reviewed by at least two research experts in the field of the submitted paper.