Convergent plate margins are sites of Earth’s tectonism and material recycling and have provided researchers with attractive study subjects. Intensive stress on the margins provokes activities of numerous faults and the development of large topographic relief, which inevitably results in regional changes in paleoenvironments. This publication focuses on the east Eurasian margin where longstanding subduction of oceanic plates has enhanced buildup of complicated geologic structures. The authors present the late Cenozoic evolution of an arc-trench system along the northwestern Pacific based on an elaborate geological survey and the latest geophysical information.
