. Japan's inheritance, the country, its people, and their destiny . y Celebes and the Philip-pines to Formosa, gives rise, in the Liu-kiu andSatsuma Islands, to the first of the three Japaneseanticlinal curves, and terminates in Kyushu. Theeastern line of weakness, following the submarineridges which divide the Nares and ChallengerDeeps from the still profounder Tuscarora,encounters the second, or main, Japanese island-curve at its point of maximum convexity. Inits oceanic portion this fissure is indicated bythe Marianne, Bonin, and Shichi-to Islands—allhighly volcanic. On reaching the mainlan
. Japan's inheritance, the country, its people, and their destiny . y Celebes and the Philip-pines to Formosa, gives rise, in the Liu-kiu andSatsuma Islands, to the first of the three Japaneseanticlinal curves, and terminates in Kyushu. Theeastern line of weakness, following the submarineridges which divide the Nares and ChallengerDeeps from the still profounder Tuscarora,encounters the second, or main, Japanese island-curve at its point of maximum convexity. Inits oceanic portion this fissure is indicated bythe Marianne, Bonin, and Shichi-to Islands—allhighly volcanic. On reaching the mainland itmerges with the vast fracture known as the FossaMagna, or Great Transverse Fault, which strikesalmost at right angles across Central Japan. Thethird insular curve—the Chishima (Thousand)or Kurile Islands—with numerous but less ancientvents, serve to link up the Northern Hondo zonewith that of Kamchatka. At three points, there-fore, converging lines of weakness impingeupon the main Japanese arc—(i) SouthernKyushu, (2) East-Central Hondo, (3) South- 140. Aso Zone. Unzendake (4,800)* AsQsan (5,200) Kirishima Zone. Nishi Kirishima (5,600) * Higashi Kirishima (5,200) (Takachiho) * Sakurajima (3,500)Kaimon-dake (3,030) Kurile Zone. Cha-cha-nobori (7,900) ? Shiribeshi (6,500) ? Tarumai (3,500)Noboribetsu (1,000) ? Usudake (2,800) North Hondo Zone. * Komagatake (3,800) * Esan (2,000)Ganjusan (6,500) * Azumayama () * Bandaisan (; * Nasuyama (6,300) * Shiranesan (S,8oo) (Nikko) * Asama (8,200) * Shiranesan (7,500) (Kusatsu) Fuji Zone. I Tateyama (9,600)\ * Yakegatake (8,500)lOntake (10,600)Yatsugatake (8,500)Fujiyama (12,400)Amagisan (4,800) * Oshima(Mihara) (2,500) * Miyake-shima (2,7(X)) VOLCANIC ZONES, SHOWING DISTRIBUTION OF PRINCIPAL Cones O Extinct • Direction of Non-volcanic Ranges ? Japans Inheritance Central Yezo. Where these converging hnesencounter the zones of the main arc the volcanicformations are on the largest scale. Witness,in Kyus
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