Gravity measurements with a portable absolute gravimeter A10 in Syowa Station and Langhovde,East Antarctica     

Takahito Kazama  Hideaki Hayakawa  Toshihiro Higashi  Shingo Ohsono  Shunsuke Iwanami  Tomoko Hanyu  Harumi Ohta  Koichiro Doi  Yuichi Aoyama  Yoichi Fukuda  Jun Nishijima  Kazuo Shibuya 《Polar Science》2013,7(3-4):260-277

Absolute gravity values were measured with a portable absolute gravimeter A10 in East Antarctica, for the first time by the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition. This study aims to investigate regional spatiotemporal variations of ice mass distributions and associated crustal deformations around Syowa Station by means of repeated absolute gravity measurements, and we obtained the first absolute gravity value in Southern Langhovde on the Antarctic Continent. The average absolute gravity value at the newly installed benchmark AGS01 in Langhovde (obtained on 3 February 2012) was 982535584.2 ± 0.7 μgal (1 [μgal] = 1 × 10^?8 [m/s²]), which was in agreement with the gravity values obtained by the past relative gravity measurements within 1 mgal. In addition, the average absolute gravity value obtained at AGSaux in Syowa Station was consistent with both previous absolute gravity values and those obtained by simultaneous measurements using an FG5 gravimeter, owing to adequate data corrections associated with tidal effects and time variations in atomic clock frequencies. In order to detect the gravity changes associated with the ice mass changes and other tectonic phenomena, we plan to conduct absolute gravity measurements at AGS01 again and at other campaign sites around Syowa Station as well in the near future, with careful attention paid to the impacts of severe environmental conditions in Antarctica on gravity data collection.  相似文献   

In the Mountain＇s Shadow： Japan＇s Silk Reelers Blazed an Asian Path of Economic Development     

YoichiShimatsu 《山地科学学报》2004,1(2):183-191

Exploring the history of the silk-reeling industry in Chichibu, Japan, this paper challenges the prevalent representation of mountain communities as marginal economic peripheries of the metropolitan center or as reservoirs of poverty and backwardness. Mountain districts were the cradle of an Asian “industrious” revolution that led to Japan‘s modernization. The highland-based silk-reeling producers pioneered an autonomous Asian model of industrial development, which competed successfully against the capital-intensive system introduced from the West into coastal cities. The export strength of silk-producing households in upland villages overturns the claim that Japan‘s economic miracle was based on the introduction of Western technology and administrative systems. To the contrary, the Asian-style management practices and labor standards developed by the silk producers were transferred to a succession of other industries. These indigenous practices account for the rise of Japanese industry in world markets. The clash between the two opposing models of modernization resulted in modern Japan‘s first major civil conflict, the Chichibu Rebellion of 1884, a legacy that has major implications for today‘s recession-mired Japan as well as for developing countries striving for an alternative path to economic development.  相似文献   

Microthermometric Evidence for the Formation of Ca-rich Hypersaline Brine and CO₂–rich Fluid in the Mori Geothermal Reservoir, Japan     

Yoichi MURAMATSU  Ryo KOMATSU  † 《Resource Geology》1999,49(1):27-37

Abstract: Fluid inclusions in hydrothermal quartz and anhydrite samples from the Mori geothermal field, southwest Hokkaido, have been studied microthermometrically using heating/freezing stages. Based on homogenization temperatures of fluid inclusions, salinities after correction of effect of freezing-point depression of CO₂ on ice melting temperatures of fluid inclusions, and previous geochemical data by Yoshida (1991), we discuss the geneses of various types of inclusion fluids in the Mori geothermal reservoir.  相似文献   

Geology and K-Ar Ages of the South, Huh Bulgiin Hundii, Saran Uul, Taats Gol and Han Uul deposits in the Bayankhongor Region, Mongolia   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Yasushi WATANABE  Daramjav TURMAGNAI  Dolgor BYAMBASUREN  Gurjav OYUNCHIMEG  Yadamtsoo TSEDENBALJIR  Yoichi SATO 《Resource Geology》1999,49(3):123-130

Abstract: The Bayankhongor region in central Mongolia consists of a Paleozoic subduction system including Precambrian microcontinents (Baidrag and Burd Gol zones), obducted ophiolites and accretionary sedimentary rocks (Bayankhongor and Dzag zones), and forearc sedimentary rocks (Khangay zone). Arc magmatism in the Bayankhongor region is characterized by dominance of Early Paleozoic ilmenite-series and Late Paleozoic magnetite-series granitoids. These granitoids accompany many hydrothermal deposits of such various types as porphyry, skarn and vein. K-Ar dating on four deposits in the region revealed that the South porphyry Cu-Au, Huh Bulgiin Hundii skarn Cu-Au, Han Uul shear zone-hosted Au and Taats Gol pegmatite W-Au deposits formed at 240±5 Ma, 252±5 Ma, 283±6 Ma and 329±7 Ma, respectively.
Thus the former three are related to the Permian to earliest Triassic magnetite-series granitoids, whereas the W-Au pegmatite at Taats Gol to the Early Carboniferous ilmenite-series granitoids. Porphyry and skarn Cu-Au mineralization occurred at latest Permian to earliest Triassic, when the Andean-type arc magmatism was immediately followed by the collision between the Baidrag and Tarbagatai microcontinents.  相似文献   

A distinction technique between volcanic and tectonic depression structures based on the restoration modeling of gravity anomaly: a case study of the Hohi volcanic zone, central Kyushu, Japan     

Shigekazu Kusumoto  Yoichi Fukuda  Keiji Takemura 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》1999,90(3-4)

In this study, we propose a numerical modeling technique which restores the gravity anomaly of tectonic origin and identifies the gravity low of caldera origin. The identification is performed just by comparing the restored gravity anomalies with the observed gravity anomalies, thus we do not need detailed geophysical and geological information around the buried caldera. The technique has been successfully applied to distinguish the gravity low originated in the buried Shishimuta caldera from other gravity lows in the Hohi volcanic zone, central Kyushu in Japan.  相似文献   

On the Influence of Sea Surface Height Variability on Satellite Altimeter Derived Gravity     

Leni Sophia Heliani  Yoichi Fukuda 《Marine Geodesy》2001,24(2):73-84

The effect of sea surface height (SSH) variability is one of the primary factors that limit the accuracy and resolution of altimeter-derived gravity values. We propose a method to estimate the influence of variation of the sea surface height on the accuracy of satellite-derived gravity by simulation technique, with a case study around Indonesian waters. Wederived an Indonesian marine gravity map using the Geosat-geodetic mission (GM). Since most of the area studied is located around coastal and shallow areas, the measurement of SSH of this area is less accurate. To obtain a distribution of SSH variability over the study area, Topex/Poseidon (T/P) data were first processed and assessed. Processing 52 cycles of the Topex/Poseidon data, the root mean square (RMS) of SSH variability for each cycle was found to vary from 1 to 179 cm. Further, for the purpose of estimating the accuracy of altimeter-derived gravity, we derived several levels of Gaussian noise, computed simulation data by adding the Gaussian noise to Geosat data, and determined simulated gravity maps. Based on the distribution of RMS values from T/P data and standard deviation (STD) differences between the simulated and the original gravity maps, we estimated the accuracy of the gravity map. Around Indonesian waters, the accuracy of the gravity map influenced by SSH variation was estimated to be within the range 0.8~93 mgal.  相似文献   

Variance Component Estimation in Linear Inverse Ill-posed Models   总被引：2，自引：4，他引：2  

Peiliang Xu  Yunzhong Shen  Yoichi Fukuda  Yumei Liu 《Journal of Geodesy》2006,80(2):69-81

Regularization has been applied by implicitly assuming that the weight matrix of measurements is known. If measurements are assumed to be heteroscedastic with different unknown variance components, all regularization techniques may not be proper to apply, unless techniques of variance component estimation are directly implemented. Although variance component estimation techniques have been proposed to simultaneously estimate the variance components and provide a means of regularization, the regularization parameter is treated as if it were also an extra variance component. In this paper, we assume no prior information on the model parameters and do not treat the regularization parameter as an extra variance component. Instead, we first analyze the biases of estimated variance components due to the regularization parameter and then propose bias-corrected variance component estimators. The results have shown that they work very well. Finally, we propose and investigate through simulations an iterative scheme to simultaneously estimate the variance components and the regularization parameter, in order to eliminate the effect of regularization parameter on variance components and the effect of incorrect prior weights or initial variance components on the regularization parameter.  相似文献   

Geochemical Features of Vein Anhydrite from the Kakkonda Geothermal System, Northeast Japan     

Munetake Sasaki    Koichiro Fujimoto    Hitoshi Tsukamoto    Takayuki Sawaki    Masakatsu Sasada    Masanori Kurosawa  Masahiko Yagi    Yoichi Muramatsu    Osamu Kato  +  Ryo Komatsu  +  Kaichiro Kasai  + Nobuo Doi+ 《Resource Geology》2003,53(2):127-142

Abstract. Cathodoluminescence (CL) color, rare earth element (REE) content, sulfur and oxygen isotopes and fluid inclusions of anhydrite, which frequently filled in hydrothermal veins in the Kakkonda geothermal system, were investigated to elucidate the spatial, temporal and genetical evolution of fluids in the deep reservoir. The anhydrite samples studied are classified into four types based on CL colors and REE contents: type-N (no color), type-G (green color), type-T (tan color) and type-S (tan color with a high REE content). In the shallow reservoir, only type-N anhydrite is observed. In the deep reservoir, type-G anhydrite occurs in vertical veins whereas type-T and -N in lateral veins. Type-S anhydrite occurs in the heat-source Kakkonda Granite. The CL textures revealed that type-G anhydrite deposited earlier than type-T in the deep reservoir, implying that fracture system was changed from predominantly vertical to lateral.
Studies of fluid inclusions and δ³⁴S and δ¹⁸O values of the samples indicate that type-N anhydrite deposited from diluted fluids derived from meteoric water, whereas type-G, -T and -S anhydrites deposited from magmatic brines derived from the Kakkonda Granite with the exception of some of type-G with recrystallization texture and no primary fluid inclusion, which deposited from fossil seawater preserved in the sedimentary rocks. Type-G, -T and -S anhydrites exhibit remarkably different chondrite-normalized REE patterns with a positive Eu anomaly, with a convex shape (peak at Sm or Eu) and with a negative Eu anomaly, respectively. The difference in the patterns might result from the different extent of hydrothermal alteration of the reservoir rocks and contribution of the magmatic fluids.  相似文献   

Benthic ecosystem development in an artificial tidal flat constructed from dredged spoil     

Ishii R  Nakano Y  Nakai S  Nishijima W  Okada M 《Marine pollution bulletin》2008,56(12):2059-2066

Dredged spoil (DS) was used as a silt and clay additive in the construction of artificial tidal flats from mountain sand (MS). As the ratio of DS in the sediment media increased, the number of emerging macrobenthos increased. The composition of the macrobenthic community was also affected by the addition of DS, and the changes might be dependent on the ratio of DS to MS. In addition, the macrobenthos in the artificial tidal flats was more abundant than that in the control tidal flat, which was constructed with natural tidal flat sediment. With a silt and clay content of 25%, polychaetes Ceratonereis erythraeensis and Capitella sp. and the gastropod Batillaria cumingii were dominant, whereas no bivalves were present. With less silt and clay (5% and 10%), the bivalves Ruditapes philippinarum and Musculista senhousia were observed in the artificial flats, while their numbers in the control tidal flat were lower.  相似文献   

Simultaneous Analysis of Natural Free Estrogens and Their Conjugates in Wastewater by GC‐MS     

Ze‐Hua Liu  Takeshi Hashimoto  Yoichi Okumura  Yoshinori Kanjo  Satoshi Mizutani 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2010,38(2):181-188

A solid‐phase extraction (SPE)‐gas chromatography (GC)‐mass spectrometry (MS) analytical method was developed for the simultaneous analysis of natural free estrogens and their conjugates in wastewater samples. Natural free estrogens and their conjugates in wastewater were successfully separated by the oasis hydrophilic‐lipophilic balance solid phase extraction (Oasis HLB SPE) method, and the conjugates were initially enzyme hydrolyzed by β‐glucuronidase or arylsulfatase from Helix pomatia prior to derivatization. N‐methyl‐N‐(tert‐butyldimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide (MTBSTFA) plus 1% tert‐butyldimetheylchlorosilane (TBDMCS) was chosen as the derivatization reagent, and the most appropriate conditions of derivatization were determined to be at 95°C for 90 min. The recovery ratios of nine target chemicals were determined by spiking them in 1 L of ultra‐purified water or the influent of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The recovery ratios of six out of nine for the analytes ranged from 73.3–114.9% with relative standard deviations (RSD) from 1.6–19.9%. The established method was successfully applied to environmental wastewater samples which were collected from one municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Osaka, Japan, for the determination of natural free estrogens and their conjugates. In the influent sample, E1, E2, E1‐3S, E3‐3S, and E1‐3G were detected at concentrations of 16.6, 9.6, 8.2, 21.9, and 3.2 ng L^–1, respectively. However, only E1 was detected at a high concentration of 44 ng L^–1 in the effluent sample, suggesting that it is the dominant natural free estrogen in the effluent.  相似文献