Correlation of the Hakkoda–Kokumoto Tephra, a widespread Middle Pleistocene tephra erupted from the Hakkoda Caldera, northeast Japan     

Takehiko  Suzuki  Dennis  Eden  Toru  Danhara  Osamu  Fujiwara 《Island Arc》2005,14(4):666-678

Abstract A Middle Pleistocene widespread tephra referred to here as Hakkoda–Kokumoto Tephra (Hkd–Ku) has been newly recognized. Hkd–Ku, derived from the Hakkoda Caldera located in northernmost Honshu Is. of northeast Japan, covers much of Honshu Is. At the type locality in the proximal area, Hkd–Ku comprises Plinian pumice deposits and an immediately overlying ignimbrite. The fine vitric ash nature of the distal ash‐fall deposits of Hkd–Ku suggests that they are coignimbrite ash‐fall deposits. Hkd–Ku was identified using a combination of refractive indices and chemical compositions of major, trace and rare earth elements of glass shards, heavy mineral content, refractive indices of orthopyroxene and paleomagnetic polarity. On the basis of these properties, Hkd–Ku was identified in Oga and Boso Peninsulas and Osaka Plain, 830 km southwest of the source. Stratigraphic positions in Boso Peninsula and Osaka Plain within marine sediments that have a reliable chronology based on oxygen‐isotope, and litho‐, bio‐, magneto‐ and tephrostratigraphy indicate that the age of Hkd–Ku is ca 760 ka, positioned in the transition between marine oxygen‐isotope stages 19.1 and 18.4. The widespread occurrence of Hkd–Ku providing a tie line between many different Pleistocene sections over a distance of 800 km is a key marker horizon in the early part of the Middle Pleistocene. This tephra gives a time control point of ca 760 ka to marine sediments in the Oga Peninsula – where no datum plane exists between the Brunhes–Matuyama chron boundary and oxygen‐isotope stage 12 – and to the volcanostratigraphy of the Hakkoda Caldera. The distribution of Hkd–Ku showing emplacement of coignimbrite ash‐fall deposits in the area 830 km southwest of the source emphasizes the upwind transport direction, relative to the prevailing westerly winds, typical of other coignimbrite ash‐fall deposits in the Japanese islands.  相似文献   

Provenance implications of Th–U–Pb electron microprobe ages from detrital monazite in the Carboniferous Upper Silesia Coal Basin, Poland     

Monika Agnieszka Kusiak  Artur K&#x;dzior  Mariusz Paszkowski  Kazuhiro Suzuki  Ignacio Gonzlez-lvarez  Boles&#x;aw Wajsprych  Marek Doktor 《Lithos》2006,88(1-4):56-71

This paper reports the results of CHIME (chemical Th–U–Pb isochron method) dating of detrital monazites from Carboniferous sandstones in the Upper Silesia Coal Basin (USCB). A total of 4739 spots on 863 monazite grains were analyzed from samples of sandstone derived from six stratigraphic units in the sedimentary sequence. Age distributions were identified in detrital monazites from the USCB sequence and correlated with specific dated domains in potential source areas. Most monazites in all samples yielded ca. 300–320 Ma (Variscan) ages; however, eo-Variscan, Caledonian and Cadomian ages were also obtained. The predominant ages are comparable to reported ages of certain tectonostratigraphic domains in the polyorogenic Bohemian Massif (BM), which suggests that various crystalline lithologies in the BM were the dominant sources of USCB sediments.  相似文献   

Discovery of a c.370 Ma granitic gneiss clast from the Hwanggangri pebble-bearing phyllite in the Okcheon metamorphic belt, Korea     

Kazuhiro Suzuki  Daniel Dunkley  Mamoru Adachi  Ueechan Chwae 《Gondwana Research》2006,9(1-2):85

The chemical Th–U total Pb isochron method (CHIME) of dating was carried out on accessory minerals in samples from the Okcheon metamorphic belt in Korea. Dated minerals include xenotime and monazite with overgrown mantles in a granitic gneiss clast from the Hwanggangri Formation, metamorphic allanite in garnet-bearing muscovite–chlorite schist of the Munjuri Formation, and polycrase and monazite in post-tectonic granite from the Hwanggangri area. Overgrowth of mantles took place at 369 ± 10 Ma on c. 1750 Ma cores of xenotime and monazite in the granitic gneiss. Allanite, occurring in textural equilibrium with peak metamorphic minerals, yields a CHIME age of 246 ± 15 Ma that is discriminably older than the polycrase (170 ± 6 Ma) and monazite (170 ± 3 Ma) ages of the post-tectonic granite. These chronological data suggest that some of the metasedimentary rocks in the belt formed through a single stage of metamorphism at c. 250 Ma from post-370 Ma sediments. Late Permian age signatures have also been reported from the Precambrian Gyeonggi and Yeongnam massifs that border the Okcheon metamorphic belt, and indicate that parts of the basement massifs and the metamorphic belt were affected by the same regional metamorphic event.  相似文献   

Determination of Major/ Minor and Trace Elements in Silicate Samples by ICP-QMS and ICP-SFMS Applying Isotope Dilution-Internal Standardisation (ID-IS) and Multi-Stage Internal Standardisation   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Akio Makishima  Eizo Nakamura 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》2006,30(3):245-271

A method for the determination of major, minor and trace elements in silicate samples by ICP‐QMS and ICP‐SFMS applying isotope dilution‐internal standardisation (ID‐IS) and multi‐stage internal standardisation has been developed. Samples with an enriched isotope of ¹⁴⁹Sm (spike) were decomposed by a HF/HCIO₄ mixture and stepwise drying and finally diluted. In ID‐IS for trace element analyses by Q‐pole type ICP‐MS (ICP‐QMS), the Sm concentration was determined by ID, while other trace elements (Li, Be, Rb, Sr, Y, In, Cs, Ba, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Tl, Pb, Bi, Th and U) were determined using the ¹⁴⁹Sm intensity as an internal standard. Major and minor elements were determined by multi‐stage internal standardisation, with Na, Mg, Al, P, Ca, V, Mn, Fe and Co measured by sector magnetic field type ICP‐MS (ICP‐SFMS) at middle resolution (MR; M/AM =～ 3000) using Sr determined by ICP‐QMS in the sample as the internal standard. Potassium, Sc, Ni, Cu, Zn and Ga were measured at high resolution (HR; M/ΔM ～ 7500) using the Sr concentration obtained by ICP‐QMS or the Mn concentration obtained by ICP‐SFMS at MR as internal standard. The merit of ID‐IS is that accurate dilution of the sample is not required. Matrix effects on elemental ratios down to a dilution factor (DF) of 600 were not observed in either types of mass spectrometry. Pseudo‐flow injection (FI), where transient signals were integrated, was used in ICP‐QMS, while conventional continuous sample introduction was used in ICP‐SFMS, resulting in total required sample solutions of 0.026 ml and 0.08 ml, respectively. Detection limits were low enough to determine these elements in depleted ultramafic rocks, and typical reproducibilities for basalts were 3% (Li‐Be), 1% (Rb‐U), 5% (In, Tl and Bi), 7% (Sc‐Ga) and 3% (major elements). Carbonaceous chondrites including Orgueil (Cll), Murchison (CM2) and Allende (CV3), as well as reference materials, JB‐1, ‐2, ‐3, JA‐1, ‐2, ‐3 and JP‐1 (GSJ), BHVO‐1, AGV‐1, PCC‐1 and DTS‐1 (USGS), were analysed to show the applicability of this method. Une méthode permettant la détermination des éléments majeurs, mineurs et en trace dans les echantillons silicates par ICP‐QMS et ICP‐SFMS a été développée. Elle combine la standardisation interne par dilution isotopique (ID‐IS) et la standardisation interne en deux étapes. Les échantillons, auxquels est ajouté un spike enrichi en ¹⁴⁹ Sm, sont décomposés par une mixture HF/HCIO_4′ séchés progressivement puis dilués. Dans la phase de standardisation interne par dilution isotopique avec un ICP‐MS à quadrupôle (ICP‐QMS), la concentration en Sm est déterminée par dilution isotopique tandis que les autres éléments en trace (Li, Be, Rb, Sr, Y, In, Cs, Ba, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Tl, Pb, Bi, Th et U) sont déterminés en utilisant le signal de ¹⁴⁹ Sm comme standard interne. Les éléments majeurs et mineurs sont déterminés par standardisation interne par étapes, avec Na, Mg, Al, P, Ca, V, Mn, Fe et Co mesurés par ICP‐MS à secteur magnétique (ICP‐SFMS) en résolution intermédiaire (MR; M/ΔM =～ 3000 en utilisant Sr, mesuré par ICP‐QMS comme standard interne. Les éléments K, Sc, Ni, Cu, Zn et Ga sont mesurés en Haute Résolution (M/ΔM ～ 7500) en utilisant comme standard interne, soit la concentration en Sr obtenue par ICP‐QMS soit la concentration en Mn obtenue par ICP‐SFMS en résolution moyenne. La technique de ID‐IS a l'avantage de ne pas nécessiter la connaissance exacte du facteur de dilution de l'Schantillon. Aucun effet de matrice sur la mesure de rapports élémentaires n'a été observé sur l'un ou l'autre des spectromètres de masse, ceci jusqu'à un facteur de dilution (DF) de 600. Les analyses par ICP‐QMS ont été effectuées par pseudo injection de flux (Fl) et intégration d'un signal transitoire tandis que les analyses par ICP‐SFMS l'ont été avec un système conventionnel d'introduction. Le volume total de solution d'échantillon nécessaire etait de 0.026 ml et 0.08 ml respectivement. Les limites de détection étaient suffisamment basses pour permettre la détermination de ces éléments dans des roches ultrabasiques et les reproductibilités pour les basaltes étaient de l'ordre de 3% (Li‐Be), 1 % (Rb‐U), 5% (In, Tl et Bi), 7% (Sc‐Ga) et 3% (tous les éléments majeurs). Des chondrites carbonées dont Orgueil (Cll), Murchison (CM2) et Allende (CV3) ainsi que des matériaux de référence JB‐1, ‐2, ‐3, JA‐1, ‐2, ‐3 et JP‐1 (GSJ), BHVO‐1, AGV‐1, PCC‐1 et DTS (USGS) ont été analysés pour démontrer l'applicabilité de la méthode.  相似文献   

Carbon-14 age and chemical evolution of Ca(HCO3)2-type groundwater of age less than 8,000 years in a confined sandy and muddy Pleistocene aquifer, Japan     

Isao Machida  Yohey Suzuki  Mio Takeuchi 《Hydrogeology Journal》2013,21(6):1289-1305

The Pleistocene Kimitsu aquifer was selected for examination of the relationship between groundwater age and chemical evolution of Ca(HCO₃)₂-type groundwater. For the most part, the aquifer is confined and composed mainly of quartz and feldspar with a small amount of calcite. The groundwater ages calculated by ¹⁴C were adjusted by using a carbon mass-balance method and corrected for effects of ¹⁴C diffusion. Groundwater ages in the Kimitsu aquifer vary from modern (upgradient) to approximately 2,400 years at 4.4 km from the edge of the recharge area. The ¹⁴C age was verified by groundwater velocity calculated from the hydraulic gradient and hydraulic conductivity. The confined groundwater evolved to Ca(HCO₃)₂-type around 50 years after recharge and this has been maintained for more than 8,300 years due to low chemical reactivity, derived from equilibrium with calcite, kaolinite and Ca-montmorillonite. In addition, high pH prevents the dissolution of Fe and Mn. Consequently, the rate of increase in electrical conductivity ranges from 10 to 30 μS/cm per 1,000 years. On the other hand, leakage from the deep region, which is recognized from high Cl^– levels, causes remarkable increases in CH₄ and HCO₃ ^– concentrations, resulting in an apparent sulfidic zone at 500-m depth in most downgradient regions.  相似文献   

Modeling three-dimensional forest structures to drive canopy radiative transfer simulations of bidirectional reflectance factor     

Wei Yang  Hideki Kobayashi  Xuehong Chen  Kenlo Nishida Nasahara  Rikie Suzuki  Akihiko Kondoh 《International Journal of Digital Earth》2018,11(10):981-1000

Three-dimensional (3-D) Monte Carlo-based radiative transfer (MCRT) models are usually used for benchmarking in intercomparisons of the canopy radiative transfer (RT) simulations. However, the 3-D MCRT models are rarely applied to develop remote sensing algorithms to estimate essential climate variables of forests, due mainly to the difficulties in obtaining realistic stand structures for different forest biomes over regional to global scales. Fortunately, some of important tree structure parameters such as canopy height and tree density distribution have been available globally. This enables to run the intermediate complexities of the 3-D MCRT models. We consequently developed a statistical approach to generate forest structures with intermediate complexities depending on the inputs of canopy height and tree density. It aims at facilitating applications of the 3-D MCRT models to develop remote sensing retrieval algorithms. The proposed approach was evaluated using field measurements of two boreal forest stands at Estonia and USA, respectively. Results demonstrated that the simulations of bidirectional reflectance factor (BRF) based on the measured forest structures agreed well with the BRF based on the generated structures from the proposed approach with the root mean square error (RMSE) and relative RMSE (rRMSE) ranging from 0.002 to 0.006 and from 0.7% to 19.8%, respectively. Comparison of the computed BRF with corresponding MODIS reflectance data yielded RMSE and rRMSE lower than 0.03 and 20%, respectively. Although the results from the current study are limited in two boreal forest stands, our approach has the potential to generate stand structures for different forest biomes.  相似文献   

Cathaysian slivers in the Philippine island arc: geochronologic and geochemical evidence from sedimentary formations of the west Central Philippines     

C. B. Dimalanta  D. V. Faustino-Eslava  J. T. Padrones  K. L. Queaño  R. A. B. Concepcion  S. Suzuki 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2018,65(1):93-108

The use of geodynamic information contained in sedimentary rocks has only recently been extended into the tectonic reconstruction studies of the Philippine archipelago vis-à-vis the rest of the Southeast Asian region. We present here a comparative assessment of clastic units from the western Central Philippines, particularly from the islands of Mindoro, Panay and Palawan, and propose their likely association with sources of Cathaysian origin. Geochronological data from sedimentary formations in the study areas register U–Pb dating peaks at 185–140 Ma, 140–120 Ma and 112–90 Ma. These are similar to those observed of detrital zircons from rocks of Cathaysian origin in Taiwan and Southern China that chronicle the Yanshanian magmatic events. These same formations also record an older intercept at 1.9–1.85 Ga that likely corresponds to a regional continental orogenic episode recorded in the late Paleoproterozoic Cathaysian block. Major (e.g. Al₂O₃/TiO₂) and trace-element (e.g. Y/Ni vs Cr/V) signatures of these sedimentary formations reflect stronger influences from granitic sources than mafic–ultramafic inputs that should otherwise be expected, considering their current oceanic island arc settings. Their La/Th and Th–Co–Zr/10 ratios also reveal continental island arc and active or passive continental margin depositional settings typical of rocks from the Palawan Microcontinental Block. New geochronological and geochemical data from the clastic rocks of northwest Mindoro, in addition to those already published for the other regions of the Palawan Microcontinental Block, provide further evidence for the amalgamation of fragments of Cathaysian origin within the Philippine island arc system.  相似文献   

Light utilization efficiency of phytoplankton in the Western Subarctic Gyre of the North Pacific during summer     

Yuichi Nosaka  Tomonori Isada  Isao Kudo  Hiroaki Saito  Hiroshi Hattori  Atsushi Tsuda  Koji Suzuki 《Journal of Oceanography》2014,70(1):91-103

We investigated the water-column light utilization efficiency (Ψ) of phytoplankton photosynthesis in the Western Subarctic Gyre (WSG) of the North Pacific during summer 2008. The Ψ values (0.64–1.86 g C [g Chl a]^?1 [mol photon]^?1 m²) obtained were observed to increase significantly with decreasing daily photosynthetic available radiation (PAR) and were generally higher than those of previous studies, not only from the subarctic Pacific but also from the world’s oceans. To examine the effect of iron availability on Ψ in the WSG, Ψ values were estimated from the data of two in situ iron fertilization experiments: the Subarctic Pacific Iron Experiment for Ecosystem Dynamics Study I (SEEDS-I) and II (SEEDS-II). We found that iron availability did not affect Ψ values. Overall, this study revealed that Ψ values changed remarkably in the WSG during the summer, and that higher values were found at the stations where moderate PAR levels (ca. 10–30 mol photons m^?2 day^?1) were observed and where autotrophic flagellates predominated in the phytoplankton assemblages.  相似文献   

Heavy oil exposure increases viral production in natural marine bacterial populations     

Mitsuhiro Yoshida  Satoru Suzuki 《Journal of Oceanography》2014,70(1):115-122

This study examined whether heavy oil (HO) increases viral production and how that change may affect the marine bacterial community. The addition of a relatively low concentration (10 μg/mL) of HO to seawater resulted in the highest degree of viral lysis. Although the composition of the bacterial community did not change upon the viral lysis in terms of the taxa present, the relative abundance of the γ-Proteobacteria family Alteromonadaceae decreased (by 10 %) after the HO exposure, implying that the selective lysis by viruses and induced prophages may be responsible for changes in the composition of the bacterial community.  相似文献   

A Method for Rapid Determination of Re and Os Isotope Compositions Using ID‐MC‐ICP‐MS Combined with the Sparging Method     

Tatsuo Nozaki  Katsuhiko Suzuki  Gregory Ravizza  Jun‐Ichi Kimura  Qing Chang 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》2012,36(2):131-148

A simple, rapid method for the determination of Re and Os concentrations and isotope compositions using isotope dilution multi‐collector inductively coupled plasma‐mass spectrometry (ID‐MC‐ICP‐MS) combined with Carius tube digestion and sparging introduction of Os was developed. For Os measurement, four channeltron ion counters to detect different Os isotopes were used simultaneously, which led to a drastic reduction in the measurement time. Rhenium isotopes were measured by means of eight Faraday cups with solution nebulisation and an ultrasonic membrane desolvator. The representative ¹⁸⁸Os count rate of an Os standard solution containing 50 pg of total Os was approximately 110000–120000 cps at the onset of measurement; the Re intensity of our in‐house 10 pg g^?1 standard solution reached 1820 V/μg g^?1 with a sample uptake rate of 95–99 μl min^?1. These values indicate that the sensitivity of the method was sufficient even for samples with low Re and Os concentrations, such as chert. As the temporal variations of the amplification efficiency of the ion counters differed from one another, we adopted a sample‐calibrator bracketing method to correct the measured Re and Os isotope ratios. The Re and Os concentrations via the isotope dilution method and the ¹⁸⁷Os/¹⁸⁸Os ratios of two sedimentary rock reference materials (JMS‐2 and JCh‐1) on the basis of the isotope ratios determined by the MC‐ICP‐MS and by negative thermal ionisation mass spectrometry (N‐TIMS) were comparable within their ranges. Based on Os isotope measurement of the IAG reference material [Durham Romil Os (DROsS)], the average difference from the recommended value and precision of Os isotope measurements by the sparging method in combination with multi‐ion‐counters were 0.72% and 0.76% [1RSD (%), n = 29], respectively. The precisions in the ¹⁸⁷Os/¹⁸⁸Os ratios [1RSD (%)] of JMS‐2, JCh‐1 and DROsS were 0.35–0.71, 1.56–3.31 and 0.99–1.28%, respectively, which depended on their Os ion intensities. No systematic difference was observed between the Re and Os geochemical compositions of JCh‐1 and JMS‐2 obtained by means of digestion with inverse aqua regia and CrO₃‐H₂SO₄ solutions, suggesting that either acid solution can be used for the sparging method of sedimentary rock samples. As CrO₃‐H₂SO₄ solution is believed to liberate predominantly the hydrogenous Re and Os fraction from organic‐rich sediment, the sparging method combined with CrO₃‐H₂SO₄ digestion and multi‐ion‐counters in the mass spectrometry is expected to be a powerful tool for reconstructing the secular change in marine Os isotope compositions with high sample throughput.  相似文献