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Hidaka Belt

• Type locality: Hokkaido
• Collision zone between the Paleo-Japan arc - Trench system at the eastern margin of Eurasia plate and the Paleo-Kuril arc - Trench system
• Accretionary complex by the westward subduction of the Izanagi-Kula plate
• Paleocene - early Eocene (Radiolarians)

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Turbidite
• Lithofacies (Minor): Pelagic sediments, Mélange associated with N-MORB greenstones

• Upper limit: Thrust
• Lower limit: Hidaka Main Thrust (Poroshiri Ophiolite)

------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

• Distribution: Hokkaido

• Nanayama et al. (2019) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.125, no.6, pp.421-438 DOI
• Takahashi et al. (2018) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.124, no.6, pp.399-411 DOI
• Kojima and Shimura (2014) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.120, no.11, pp.393-412 DOI
• Tanaka et al. (2012) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.118, no.11, pp.723-740 DOI
• Ando et al. (2007) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.113, Supplement, pp.185-203 DOI