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Table 2—Continued<br />

Unit(s) and Correlations.<br />

Tectonic Environment(s) Tectonic Linkages.<br />

Comments<br />

Age<br />

MIDDLE AND LATE CENOZOIC CONTINENTAL-MARGIN ARCS AND<br />

LINKED SUBDUCTION ZONES<br />

Northeast Asia Continental-Margin Arc<br />

East Japan volcanic-plutonic belt, Central<br />

Kamchatka volcanic belt, Central Kamchatka<br />

volcanic and sedimentary basin, East<br />

Kamchatka volcanic belt, Eastern Sakhalin<br />

sedimentary basin, and the West Kamchatka<br />

sedimentary basin.<br />

Early Eocene to Miocene to present.<br />

Igneous overlap assemblages Axial part of arc.<br />

Kuril-Kamchatka terrane.<br />

Accretionary wedge and<br />

Linked to Northeast Asia arc. Remnant of<br />

Miocene to present.<br />

subduction zone<br />

subduction of Pacifi c oceanic plate.<br />

Sea of Japan unit, Sakhalin-Primorye volcanic<br />

belt, and Kuril unit.<br />

Oligocene to Miocene.<br />

Back-arc units Linked to Northeast Asia arc.<br />

Aleutian-Wrangell Continental-Margin Arc<br />

Aleutian volcanic belt, and Wrangell volcanic<br />

field.<br />

Early Eocene to Miocene to present.<br />

Igneous overlap assemblages Axial part of arc.<br />

Attu Island part of Prince William terrane and<br />

Yakutat terrane.<br />

Early Tertiary to present.<br />

Cascade volcanic-plutonic belt.<br />

Eocene to present.<br />

Siletzia, Olympic Core, and Hoh terranes and<br />

modern-day subduction zone.<br />

Eocene to present.<br />

Columbia River Basalt Group.<br />

Miocene.<br />

Accretionary wedge Linked to Aleutian-Wrangell arc. Remnants of<br />

subduction of ancestral Pacifi c oceanic plate.<br />

Cascade Continental-Margin Arc<br />

Igneous overlap assemblage Axial part of arc.<br />

Subduction zone and accretionary<br />

wedge<br />

Back-arc unit Linked to Cascade arc.<br />

Appendix 345<br />

Linked to Cascade arc. Remnants of subduction of<br />

Juan de Fuca plate.

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