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Izu Islands

Izu Shoto

map of Izu Islands

Each Island name links to PDF file including photos, relief image map and discription of the island
at National Catalogue of The Active Volcanoes in Japan (4th Edition) - English Version. For example;

Miyakejima (PDF 9.252 KB)

海域火山データベース You can click a volcaoe name on the map and you will find information including underwater geography map, bird view map and photographs.

This is at Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department (海洋情報部) at Japan Coast Guard (海上保安庁). For example;

This is at Japanese site. (not found at their English version site yet.)

Japanese Volcanoes at Global Volcanism Program at Simisoniun Institution National Museum of Natural History

Plate Tectonics Theory

Izu Islands are volcanic islands on subduction zone on the margin of Philippine plate that borders Pacific plate. Here are some of links about trenches, plates and plate tectonic theory.

Tectonic plates in the world (simple map) 

at This Dynamic Earth at USCG Geographical Survey

The Rocky History of an Idea and Mechanism 

at Geology: Plate Tectonics at UCMP University of California Museum of Paleontology

If you feel that plate tectonics theory does not explain the process fully, here's a link I came across. Questions raised might interest you.

Oceanic Crust at Shock Dynamics

Izu Island Page

Visit for scuba diving and other information.


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