**Meet the editor**

Yasuto Itoh was born in Osaka. He received a PhD in Kyoto University. Now he is the Associate Professor of the Graduate School of Science of Osaka Prefecture University. He conducts research into tectonics, stratigraphy and paleomagnetism and has published about 100 papers in the field of backarc opening process, deformation mode of active plate margins, quantitative assessment

of active faults, paleoenvironment of East Asia and geochemical modeling of burial history of sedimentary basins. His professional memberships include: American Geophysical Union; American Association of Petroleum Geologists; Japan Geoscience Union; Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology. He is also a member of the Integrated Research Project for Active Fault Systems by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan.

Contents

**Preface IX**

**Section 1 Genetic Analyses of Sedimentary Basins in Wrench**

Chapter 1 **Variation in Forearc Basin Configuration and Basin-filling**

Osamu Takano, Yasuto Itoh and Shigekazu Kusumoto

**Section 2 Basin Formation in Peripherals of Continental Plate: Orogeny,**

Chapter 3 **East Asia-Wide Flat Slab Subduction and Jurassic Synorogenic**

Chapter 4 **Early Continental Rift Basin Stratigraphy, Depositional Facies**

Nakatsukasa, Yutaka Kunimtatsu and Emma Mbua

**and Tectonics in Volcaniclastic System: Examples from the Miocene Successions Along the Japan Sea and in the East**

Tetsuya Sakai, Mototaka Saneyoshi, Yoshihiro Sawada, Masato

**Depositional Systems as a Function of Trench Slope Break Development and Strike-Slip Movement: Examples from the Cenozoic Ishikari–Sanriku-Oki and Tokai-Oki–Kumano-Nada**

**Deformation Zones 1**

**Forearc Basins, Japan 3**

Chapter 2 **Strike-Slip Basin – Its Configuration and Sedimentary Facies 27**

**Rifting & Collision 59**

**Basin Evolution in West Korea 61**

**African Rift Valley (Kenya) 83**

Atsushi Noda

Kosuke Egawa
