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{{Short description|Island arc between Kyushu and Taiwan}}
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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 {{convert|1200|km|mi}}.<ref name=":1">{{cite journal |last1=Kizaki |first1=K. |title=Tectonics of the Ryukyu Island Arc |journal=Journal of Physics of the Earth |date=1978 |volume=26 |issue=Supplement |pages=S301–S307 |doi=10.4294/jpe1952.26.Supplement_S301|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{cite journal |last1=Shinjo |first1=R. |last2=Kato |first2=Y. |title=Geochemical constraints on the origin of bimodal magmatism at the Okinawa Trough, an incipient back-arc basin |journal=Lithos |date=2000 |volume=54 |issue=3–4 |pages=117–137 |doi=10.1016/S0024-4937(00)00034-7|bibcode=2000Litho..54..117S }}</ref><ref name=":3">{{cite journal |last1=Park |first1=J.-O. |last2=Tokuyama |first2=H. |last3=Shinohara |first3=M. |last4=Suyehiro |first4=K. |last5=Taira |first5=A. |title=Seismic record of tectonic evolution and backarc rifting in the southern Ryukyu island arc system |journal=Tectonophysics |date=1998 |volume=294 |issue=1–2 |pages=21–42 |doi=10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00150-4|bibcode=1998Tectp.294...21P }}</ref> It is located along a section of the [[Convergent boundary|convergent plate boundary]] where the [[Philippine Sea Plate]] is subducting northwestward beneath the [[Eurasian Plate]] along the [[Ryukyu Trench]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4">{{cite journal |last1=Shinjo |first1=R. |last2=Chung |first2=S.-L. |last3=Kato |first3=Y. |last4=Kimura |first4=M. |title=Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic characteristics of volcanic rocks from the Okinawa Trough and Ryukyu Arc: Implications for the evolution of a young, intracontinental back arc basin |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth |date=1999 |volume=104 |issue=B5 |pages=10591–10608 |doi=10.1029/1999JB900040|bibcode=1999JGR...10410591S |doi-access=free }}</ref> The arc has an overall northeast to southwest trend and is located northwest of the [[Pacific Ocean]] and southeast of the [[East China Sea]].<ref name=":6">{{cite journal |last1=Nakae |first1=S. |title=The radiolarian evidence for the accretion of the Fu-saki Formation with the inferred oceanic plate stratigraphy: A case of weakly-metamorphosed accretionary complex in Ishigaki Jima, southern Ryukyu Arc, Japan |journal=Journal of Asian Earth Sciences |date=2013 |volume=73 |pages=21–30 |doi=10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.04.022|bibcode=2013JAESc..73...21N }}</ref> It runs parallel to the [[Okinawa Trough]], an active volcanic arc, and the Ryukyu Trench.<ref name=":5">{{cite journal |last1=Kizaki |first1=K. |title=Geology and tectonics of the Ryukyu Islands |journal=Tectonophysics |date=1986 |volume=125 |issue=1–3 |pages=193–207 |doi=10.1016/0040-1951(86)90014-4|bibcode=1986Tectp.125..193K }}</ref> The Ryukyu Arc, based on its geomorphology, can be segmented from north to south into Northern Ryukyu, Central Ryukyu, and Southern Ryukyu; the Tokara Strait separates Northern Ryukyu and Central Ryukyu at about 130˚E while the [[Miyako Strait|Kerama Gap]] separates Central Ryukyu and Southern Ryukyu at about 127 ˚E.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /> The geological units of the arc include [[Igneous rock|igneous]], [[Sedimentary rock|sedimentary]], and [[metamorphic rock]]s, ranging from the [[Paleozoic]] to [[Cenozoic]] in age.
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The geological and structural features of Southern Ryukyu are quite different from those of Northern and Central Ryukyu; Southern Ryukyu, and Northern and Central Ryukyu may have developed in disparate geological settings before the middle [[Miocene]].<ref name=":1" /> [[Accretionary wedge|Accretionary complexes]] in Northern and Central Ryukyu are considered as the extension of the Outer Zone of Southwest Japan,<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":25">{{cite book|last1=Taira|first1= A.|last2= Ohara|first2= Y.|last3= Wallis|first3= S. R.|last4=Ishiwatari|first4= A.|last5= Iryu|first5= Y. |date=2016|chapter=Geological evolution of Japan: an overview|title=The geology of Japan|pages=1–24|doi=10.1144/GOJ.1|editor-first1=T.|editor-last1= Moreno|editor-first2= S. |editor-last2=Wallis|editor-first3= T. |editor-last3=Kojima|editor-first4=W. |editor-last4=Gibbons|isbn=9781862397064|publisher=The Geological Society}}</ref><ref name=":26">{{cite journal |last1=Takami |first1=M. |last2=Takemura |first2=R. |last3=Nishimura |first3=Y. |last4=Kojima |first4=T. |title=Reconstruction of oceanic plate stratigraphies and unit division of Jurassic-Early Cretaceous accretionary complexes in the Okinawa Islands, central Ryukyu Island Arc. |journal=The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan |date=1999 |volume=105 |issue=12 |pages=866–880 |doi=10.5575/geosoc.105.866|doi-access=free }}</ref> whereas metamorphic rocks in Southern Ryukyu are associated with the Inner Zone of Southwest Japan.<ref name=":14" /> The arc might be united into the present configuration in the [[Pliocene]]-[[Pleistocene]] due to different rates of southeastward migration as tectonics proceeded.<ref name=":1" />
[[File:Location of the Ryukyu Islands.JPG|thumb|upright=1.5|Location of the Ryukyu Islands
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The Ryukyu Arc is a site of active [[seismicity]] characterised by shallow earthquakes, given the ongoing convergence between the Philippine Sea Plate and Eurasian Plate.<ref name=":9" /> Seismic data of earthquakes have been used to detect seismic structures below the Ryukyu Arc.<ref name="a">{{cite journal |last1=Roecker |first1=S. W. |last2=Yeh |first2=Y. H. |last3=Tsai |first3=Y. B. |title=Three-dimensional P and S wave velocity structures beneath Taiwan: Deep structure beneath an arc-continent collision |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth |date=1987 |volume=92 |issue=B10 |pages=10547–10570 |doi=10.1029/JB092iB10p10547|bibcode=1987JGR....9210547R |doi-access=free }}</ref> [[Low-velocity zone|Low seismic velocity zones]], which are possibly associated with the upwelling of magma, have been discovered beneath active volcanoes and the Okinawa Trough.<ref name="a" />
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=== Volcanoes ===
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===Motobu and Yonamine Formations===
The Motobu and Yonamine Formations are [[Permian]] rocks that constitute the basement of the Motobu peninsula of [[Okinawa Island]], Central Ryukyu.<ref name=":10">{{cite journal |last1=Ishibashi |first1=T. |title=Stratigraphy of the Triassic Formation in Okinawa-jima, Ryukyus |journal=Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyūsyū University. Series D, Geology |date=1969 |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=373–385 |doi=10.5109/1543682|doi-access=free |hdl=2324/1543682 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
The Motobu Formation consists mainly of [[limestone]] interbedded with [[chert]] and [[phyllite]].<ref name=":11">{{cite report|last1=Flint|first1= D. E.|last2= Saplis|first2= R. A.|last3=Corwin|first3= G.|date=1959|title=Military geology of Okinawa-jima, Ryūkyū-Rettō|volume=5 (Geology)|publisher= US Army Pacific, Office of the Engineer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=65ocAQAAMAAJ|via=Google Books}}</ref> The limestone contains [[foraminifera]] fossils of Permian age.<ref name=":9" />
The Yonamine Formation, with strata of interbedded phyllite, [[slate]], [[sandstone]], limestone, greenstone, and chert,<ref name=":11" /> underlies the Motobu Formation<ref name=":12">{{cite journal|last1=Konishi|first1= K.|date=1963|title=Pre-Miocene basement complex of Okinawa, and the tectonic belts of the Ryukyu Islands|journal=Science Reports of Kanazawa University|volume=8|issue=2|pages= 569–602|url=http://scirep.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/articles/08-02-017.pdf}}</ref> and contains Permian corals.<ref name=":13">{{cite journal |last1=Haikawa |first1=T. |last2=Ishibashi |first2=T. |title=Waagenophyllum (Waagenophyllum) okinawense, a new Permian coral from Okinawa-jima, Ryukyu Islands : Paleontological Study of the Ryukyu Islands－VII |journal=Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyūsyū University. Series D, Geology |date=1981 |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=179–188 |doi=10.5109/1546074|doi-access=free |hdl=2324/1546074 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
===Tomuru Formation===
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The Miyara Formation is a south-southwest-dipping succession of [[Conglomerate (geology)|conglomerate]], sandstone, [[shale]], and limestone deposited along the coast of Ishigaki Island.<ref name=":9" /> A large variety of marine fossils—e.g., calcareous algae, foraminifera, corals, [[echinoderm]]s, [[bryozoa]]ns, and [[Gastropoda|gastropods]]— have been preserved in the limestones, and [[Mollusca|molluscs]] were also found in the conglomerate.<ref name=":9" /> Foraminifera and calcareous algae in the limestones suggest a late Eocene age.<ref name=":9" />
The Nosoko Formation is a 300m thick sequence of [[tuff]], volcanic sandstone and [[breccia]], and lavas with [[Dike (geology)|dykes]], [[Sill (geology)|sills]], and other small [[Igneous intrusion|intrusions]].<ref name=":9" /> This formation is widely exposed at the Nosoko peninsula in northern Ishigaki Island.<ref name=":9" /> It also lies conformably above the Miyara Formation.<ref name=":21" /> [[Paleomagnetism|Paleomagnetic]] data of the Nosoko Formation indicate a mean deflection of the magnetic direction at about 30˚ clockwise away from the expected pole.<ref name=":17">{{cite journal |last1=Miki |first1=M. |title=Two-phase opening model for the Okinawa Trough inferred from paleomagnetic study of the Ryukyu arc |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth |date=1995 |volume=100 |issue=B5 |pages=8169–8184 |doi=10.1029/95JB00034|bibcode=1995JGR...100.8169M |doi-access=free }}</ref> This data, coupled with [[Radiometric dating|radiometric]] ages, suggest that Southern Ryukyu might have rotated about 25˚ with respect to the Asian continent in the Miocene at 6–10 Ma.<ref name=":17" />
===Yaeyama Group===
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Deposition of continental shelf sediments (the Yaeyama Group) took place in Southern Ryukyu, which at the time was stable and had no crustal movement, during early Miocene.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":21">{{cite journal |last1=Ujiié |first1=H. |title=Early Pleistocene birth of the Okinawa Trough and Ryukyu Island Arc at the northwestern margin of the Pacific: evidence from Late Cenozoic planktonic foraminiferal zonation |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |date=1994 |volume=108 |issue=3–4 |pages=457–474 |doi=10.1016/0031-0182(94)90246-1|bibcode=1994PPP...108..457U }}</ref> After a cessation of subduction around 10–6 Ma, the Philippine Sea Plate resumed subducting since the late Miocene (about 6 Ma), leading to back-arc spreading of the Okinawa Trough.<ref name=":22">{{cite journal |last1=Kamata |first1=H. |last2=Kodama |first2=K. |title=Tectonics of an arc-arc junction: an example from Kyushu Island at the junction of the Southwest Japan Arc and the Ryukyu Arc |journal=Tectonophysics |date=1994 |volume=233 |issue=1–2 |pages=69–81 |doi=10.1016/0040-1951(94)90220-8|bibcode=1994Tectp.233...69K }}</ref> Initial rifting of the northern Okinawa Trough may have caused a counterclockwise rotation in Northern Ryukyu and southern Kyushu after 6 Ma.<ref name=":22" /> Meanwhile, paleomagnetic data record a clockwise rotation of Southern Ryukyu after 10 Ma.<ref name=":17" /> [[Reflection seismology|Seismic reflection]] surveys indicate initial rifting of the southern part of the Okinawa Trough in the early Pleistocene, which gave rise to distinct tectonic processes, i.e., [[sedimentation]], crustal doming, [[erosion]], and [[Tectonic subsidence|subsidence]].<ref name=":3" /> The emergence of the Ryukyu Arc, together with the subsidence of the Okinawa Trough, may have occurred in the late Pleistocene (1.7–0.5 Ma) after the development of the Shimajiri Group and before that of the Ryukyu Group.<ref name=":21" /> The back-arc rifting and associated sedimentation in the southern Okinawa Trough have continued since 2 Ma.<ref name=":3" />
A study following the 2018 Hualien earthquake sequence show that the Ryukyu Arc may be kinematically connected to the northern Central Range in Taiwan. Shallow earthquake data shows that the offset in the northern Central Range follows the strike of the Ryukyu Arc, not the Longitudinal Fault Valley which is the suture between the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian Plate, east out into the sea. Additionally, GPS data shows that the northern Central Range follows the motion of the Ryukyu arc to the south-east as opposed to the west like the rest of the mountain range.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jian |first=Pei‐Ru |last2=Liang |first2=Wen‐Tzong |last3=Kuo |first3=Ban‐Yuan |date=September 2022 |title=Three‐Dimensional Stress Model of the Collision‐Subduction Junction East of Taiwan: Implications for the Decoupling of the Luzon Arc During Subduction |url=https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JB024054 |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth |language=en |volume=127 |issue=9 |doi=10.1029/2022JB024054 |issn=2169-9313|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==See also==
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