Geodynamics of the Western Pacific Proceedings of the International Conference on Geodynamics of the Western Pacific-Indonesian Region March 1978, Tokyo

Physical and chemical studies of the earth and planets along with their surroundings are now developing very rapidly. As these studies are of essentially international charac­ ter, many international conferences, symposia, seminars and workshops are held every year. To publish proceedings of these meetings is of course important for tracing development of various disciplines of earth and planetary sciences though publishin,g is fast getting to be an expensive business. It is my pleasure to learn that the Center for Academic Publications Japan and the Japan Scientific Societies Press have agreed to undertake the publication of a series "Ad­ vances in Earth and Planetary Sciences" which should certainly become an important medium for conveying achievements of various meetings to the academic as well as non­ academic scientific communities. It is planned to publish the series mostly on the basis of proceedings that appear in the Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity edited by the Society of Terrestrial Magnetism and Electricity of Japan, the Journal of Physics of the Earth by the Seismological Society of Japan and the Volcanological Society of Japan, and the Geochemical Journal by the Geochemical Society of Japan, although occasional volumes of the series will include independent proceedings. Selection of meetings, of which the proceedings will be included in the series, will be made by the Editorial Committee for which I have the honour to work as the General Editor.

Plate Tectonic Evolution of North Pacific Rim.- Speculations on Mountain Building and the Lost Pacifica Continent.- Benioff Zones, Absolute Motion and Interarc Basin.- Oceanic Crust in the Dynamics of Plate Motion and Back-Arc Spreading.- Basic Types of Internal Deformation of the Continental Plate at Arc-Arc Junctions.- Fault Patterns in Outer Trench Walls and Their Tectonic Significance.- Motion of the Pacific Plate and Formation of Marginal Basins: Asymmetric Flow Induction.- The Relationship between Volcanic Island Genesis and the Indo-Australian Pacific Plate Margins in the Eastern Outer Islands, Solomon Islands, South-West Pacific.- Upper Mantle Velocity Structure in the New Hebrides Island Arc Region.- Upper Mantle Velocity Structure in the Tonga-Kermadec Island Arc Region.- Morphology and Structure of the Southern Part of the New Hebrides Island Arc System.- Palaeomagnetic Evidence for the Rotation of Seram, Indonesia.- A Late Miocene K-Ar Age for the Lavas of Pulau Kelang, Seram, Indonesia.- A Survey of Paleomagnetic Data on Mexico.- Southeast Asian Tin Granitoids of Contrasting Tectonic Setting.- Seismicity, Gravity and Tectonics in the Andaman Sea.- Focal Mechanisms and Tectonics in the Taiwan-Philippine Region.- Recent Tectonics of Taiwan.- Tectonics of the Ryukyu Island Arc.- Explosion Seismic Studies in South Kyushu Especially around the Sakurajima Volcano.- Two Types of Accretionary Fold Belts in Central Japan.- Permian and Triassic Sedimentary History of the Honshu Geosyncline in the Tamba Belt, Southwest Japan.- Thermal Structure of the Sanbagawa Metamorphic Belt in Central Shikoku.- Shimanto Geosyncline and Kuroshio Paleoland.- Magnetic Stratigraphy of the Japanese Neogene and the Development of the Island Arcs of Japan.- Regional Characteristics and Their Geodynamic Implications of Late Quaternary Tectonic Movement Deduced from Deformed Former Shorelines in Japan.- Magnetic Anomalies and Tectonic Evolution of the Shikoku Inter-Arc Basin.- A Compilation of Magnetic Data in the Northwestern Pacific and in the North Philippine Sea.- Collision of the Izu-Bonin Arc with Central Honshu: Cenozoic Tectonics of the Fossa Magna, Japan.- Flow under the Island Arc of Japan and Lateral Variation of Magma Chemistry of Island Arc Volcanoes.- Seismic Activity and Pore Pressures across Island Arcs of Japan.- Aseismic Belt along the Frontal Arc and Plate Subduction in Japan.- Tsunamicity of Sanriku Depends on Subduction Tectonics.- Seismic Studies of the Upper Mantle beneath the Arc-Junction at Hokkaido: Folded Structure of Intermediate-Depth Seismic Zone and Altenuation of Seismic Waves.- Sedimentary Patterns in Apparent Back-Arc Basins: A Case Study of the Neogene Sequence in Northwestern Hokkaido, Japan.- Velocity Anisotropy in the Sea of Japan as Revealed by Big Explosions.- Geodynamics of the North-Eastern Asia in Mesozoic and Cenozoic Time and the Nature of Volcanic Belts.- The Crustal Structure and Origin of the Basins of Japan Sea and Some Other Seas of the Circum-Pacific Mobile Belt.- Major Strike-Slip Faults and Their Bearing on Spreading in the Japan Sea.- Significant Eruptive Activities Related to Large Interplate Earthquakes in the Northwestern Pacific Margin.- A Mechanism to Explain the Earthquakes around Japan by the Process of Partial Melting.- The Formation of Intermediate and Deep Earthquake Zone in Relation to the Geologic Development of East Asia since Mesozoic.- Geographical Index.