Critically, seismic profiles on both sides of the basin showed that upper crustal extension was insufficient to explain the subsidence observed and that the degree of this mismatch increases approaching the continent-ocean transition (Clift et al. 2002).
For example, it would appear that there are problems with our understanding of the continent-ocean transition because the continental margin off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula appears to be too sharp and cuts out Lg energy that should arrive in Kyushu (snapshot Figure 9d).
In rifts affecting thick and/or warmer than normal continental crust (i.e., ~35 to 40 km thick) (Christensen and Mooney 1995), lower and mid crustal ductile flow may be invoked to account for the excessive amounts of subsidence seen close to the continent-ocean transition.
In 2001, Kennett and Furumura conducted a two-dimensional (2-D) finite-difference method (FDM) simulation of regional wavefields along the Japanese subduction zone in order to investigate the nature of Lg wave propagation in the Japanese Islands across the continent-ocean transition area.
April patterns revealed high differential gene expression in the coastal margin samples (estuary, plume and adjacent ocean) relative to freshwater, while little differential gene expression was observed along the river-to-ocean transition in August.
For most of the ocean, the transition frequency is between 2.5 and 3 mHz (Figure 1a).
The gravity-derived crustal models indicate that the crust at the eastern Indian shield margin is 39 41 km thick and thins to as much as 20 23 km at the Ocean Continent Transition (OCT) in the offshore.
We highlight multiple generations of detachment faults exhuming serpentinized subcontinental mantle in the ocean-continent transition.
Moreover, the collected data also allow refining our understanding of the oceanic (and transitional) oceanic lithosphere involved in the Eocene subduction, and plausible analogies with hyper-extended margins known in present-day ocean-continent transition zones.
The reviewer than defends the oxygen-scavenging hypothesis for the proto-mitochondrion maintaining respiration during the Martin and Müller fermentative phase by noting that, at the time when only surface waters were oxic, there would necessarily be an ocean-wide transition zone between surface oxic water and underlying anoxic water.
In all tropical basins, except the Northern Indian Ocean, the extratropical transition of a tropical cyclone may result in reintensification into a warm seclusion.
