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The area discussed in this chapter shows a considerable degree of heterogeneity. The northern and central parts of the Sea of Okhotsk form part of an epi-Mesozoic platform built up of deformed geosynclinal rocks ranging in age from Precambrian to Cretaceous covered by only slightly deformed Upper Paleogene and Neogene rocks (Fig. 1). The southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, the Yuzno (South) Okhotsk basin is a fault-bounded back-arc basin. On the seaward side lies first the Kuril Islands Ridge and then the Kuril—Kamchatka Trench (fig. 22).
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Gnibidenko, H.S. (1985). The Sea of Okhotsk—Kuril Islands Ridge and Kuril—Kamchatka Trench. In: Nairn, A.E.M., Stehli, F.G., Uyeda, S. (eds) The Ocean Basins and Margins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2351-8_8
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