| 研究実績の概要 |
The main purpose of this research is to understand the partitioning and distribution of seismicity in relation to subducting ridges during continental collision with modification of previous numerical modelling.
During the funding period, the experimental data has been processed and finished. The results regarding the influence of the presence of an overriding plate and an interplate rheology on trench retreat and subduction dynamics, has been submitted to an international journal and is still on-going. Our investigation on the India-Asia collision process and its associated extensive intraplate deformation in East Asia, based on our innovative analogue modelling, has been summarized and submitted to an international journal. The result suggests that the collision and subduction should be synchronous and interacted to explain the deformation. The result also demonstrated how large-scale Pacific slab rollback played a key role to produce the enigmatic east-west extension in Tibet, eastward continental extrusion and backarc basin formation along the East Asian margin.
By visiting international research institutions including Chinese Universities (e.g., Southern University of Science and Technology and China University of Geoscience (Wuhan)), collaborations were established for further research.
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