Great earthquake at 7.3 ka inferred from tsunami deposits in the Sukumo Bay area,Southwestern Japan     

Futoshi Nanayama  Tomohiro Tsuji  Tatsuhiko Yamaguchi  Yasuo Kondo  Michiharu Ikeda  Toshimichi Nakanishi  Michiko Miwa  Chuki Hongo  Akira Furusawa  Mitsuhiro Kuwahata 《Island Arc》2021,30(1):e12422

Tsunami deposits in Kyushu Island, Southwestern Japan, have been attributed to the 7.3 ka Kikai caldera eruption, but their origin has not been confirmed. We analyzed an 83-cm-thick Holocene event deposit in the SKM core, obtained from incised valley fill in the coastal lowlands near Sukumo Bay, Southwestern Shikoku Island. We confirmed that the event deposit contains K-Ah volcanic ash from the 7.3 ka eruption. The base of the event deposit erodes the underlying inner-bay mud, and the deposit contains material from outside the local terrestrial and marine environment, including angular quartz porphyry from a small inland exposure, oyster shell debris, and a coral fragment. Benthic foraminifers and ostracods in the deposit indicate various habitats, some of which are outside Sukumo Bay. The sand matrix contains low-silica volcanic glass from the late stage of the Kikai caldera eruption. We also documented the same glass in an event deposit in the MIK1 core, from the incised Oyodo River valley in the Miyazaki Plain on Southeastern Kyushu. These two 7.3 ka tsunami deposits join other documented examples that are widely distributed in Southwestern Japan including the Bungo Channel and Beppu Bay in Eastern Kyushu, Tachibana Bay in Western Kyushu, and Zasa Pond on the Kii Peninsula as well as around the caldera itself. The tsunami deposits near the caldera have been divided into older and younger 7.3 ka tsunami deposits, the younger ones matching the set of widespread deposits. We attribute the younger 7.3 ka tsunami deposits to a large tsunami generated by a great interplate earthquake in the Northern part of the Ryukyu Trench and (or) the Western Nankai Trough just after the late stage of the Kikai caldera eruption and the older 7.3 ka tsunami deposits to a small tsunami generated by an interplate earthquake or Kikai caldera eruption.  相似文献   

U–Pb ages of zircons from metamorphic rocks in the upper sequence of the Hidaka Metamorphic Belt,Hokkaido, Japan: Identification of two metamorphic events and implications for regional tectonics     

Yutaka Takahashi  Masumi Mikoshiba  Toshiaki Shimura  Mitsuhiro Nagata  Hideki Iwano  Tohru Danhara  Takafumi Hirata 《Island Arc》2021,30(1):e12393

The Hidaka Metamorphic Belt is a well-known example of island-arc crustal section, in which metamorphic grade increases westwards from unmetamorphosed sediment up to granulite facies. It is divided into lower (granulite to amphibolite facies) and upper (amphibolite to greenschist facies) metamorphic sequences. The metamorphic age of the belt was considered to be ~55 Ma, based on Rb – Sr whole-rock isochron ages for granulites and related S-type tonalities. However, zircons from the granulites in the lower sequence yield U – Pb ages of ~21 – 19 Ma, and a preliminary report on zircons from pelitic gneiss in the upper sequence gives a U – Pb age of ~40 Ma. In this paper we provide new zircon U – Pb ages from two pelitic gneisses in the upper sequence to assess the metamorphic age and also the maximum depositional age of the sedimentary protolith. The weighted mean ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U ages from a biotite gneiss in the central area of the belt yield 39.6 ± 0.9 Ma for newly grown metamorphic rims and 53.1 ± 0.9 Ma for the youngest detrital cores. The ages of zircons from a cordierite–biotite gneiss in the southern area are 35.9 ± 0.7 Ma for metamorphic rims and 46.5 ± 2.8 Ma for the youngest detrital cores. These results indicate that metamorphism of the upper sequence took place at ~40 – 36 Ma, and that the sedimentary protolith was deposited after ~53 – 47 Ma. These metamorphic ages are consistent with the reported ages of ~37–36 Ma plutonic rocks in the upper sequence, but contrast with the ~21–19 Ma ages of metamorphic and plutonic rocks in the lower sequence. Therefore, we conclude that the upper and lower metamorphic sequences developed independently but coupled with each other before ~19 Ma as a result of dextral reverse tectonic movement.  相似文献   

Grain boundary migration in olivine at atmospheric pressure     

Mitsuhiro Toriumi 《Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors》1982,30(1):26-35

Annealing experiments in order to study grain boundary migration (GBM) were carried out at temperatures of 1513–1773 K from 10 min to 100 hours at atmospheric pressure. Grain growth due to GBM is observed in the formation of margins of neoblastic grains which display very different structures of dislocations from that of consumed porphyroclastic and initial neoblastic grains.The velocity of GBM obtained here is approximated to be $\text{c=}\text{gh}$ in which k is 1.15×10^?9 cm³ s^?1, Q is the activation energy for GBM in olivine at 210±20 kJ mol^?1 and ρ is the dislocation density of consumed olivine (cm^?2.Inasmuch as GBM in static annealing reduces stored strain energy in olivines, it is one of the softening processes counteracting work-hardening by dislocation multiplication and tangling as well as dislocation annihilation. GBM-softening is dominant in low temperature annealing but in high temperatures dislocation recovery predominantly takes place.  相似文献   

Rounded mineral inclusions in upper mantle peridotite     

Mitsuhiro Toriumi 《Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors》1981,27(1):39-46

Mantle-derived peridotite xenoliths contain abundant olivine with rounded spinel and orthopyroxene inclusions, and orthopyroxene with rounded olivine and spinel inclusions. The shape-change of spinel, olivine and orthopyroxene inclusions from the primarily polyhedral outline to the spherical outline is governed by interfacial diffusion of oxygen in spinel (the most sluggish atom) due to reduction of total interfacial energy of the host-inclusion system.The critical radius of maximum rounded inclusions of spinel in olivine is a function of temperature and annealing time. Assuming that the activation energy for the interfacial diffusion is 40–70 kcal mol^?1 and that the annealing time for the spinel lherzolite from Salt Lake Crater in Hawaii is 100 Ma, the annealing times for perioditites under the island arcs of Japan are estimated to be 1–10 Ma.  相似文献   

Atmospheric correction scheme for GLI with absorptive aerosol correction     

Mitsuhiro Toratani  Hajime Fukushima  Hiroshi Murakami  Akihiko Tanaka 《Journal of Oceanography》2007,63(3):525-532

The present study proposes an atmospheric correction scheme for Advanced Earth Observation Satellite II (ADEOS-II)/Global Imager (GLI) ocean color retrieval that corrects for the atmospheric absorptive aerosol effect. Radiative transfer simulations were conducted assuming a non-absorptive model aerosol with a soot-type aerosol at various mixture ratios. The results indicate that while the spectral dependency of aerosol reflectance does not change in the longer (>550 nm) wavelength region, the reflectance at shorter wavelengths is highly variable and depends on the mixture ratio. The influence of aerosol absorption was also investigated using GLI data from ocean areas adjacent to Japan in the presence of absorptive Siberian fire smoke aerosol in the spring of 2003. The spectral curvature of the aerosol was estimated from the data obtained. An empirical, iterative scheme that detects and evaluates the influence of absorptive aerosols was developed by comparing 380 nm GLI-observed aerosol reflectance with predicted reflectances derived using an in-water optical model. To evaluate the performance of this scheme, satellite-derived normalized water-leaving radiances were compared with those measured from a ferry servicing Nagasaki and Fukue. The results of data acquired on March 20, 2003, indicate that this absorption correction scheme improved root mean square estimation error for normalized water-leaving radiance by approximately 40% in the 380, 400, and 412 nm bands. This atmospheric correction algorithm was used as a part of the second version of the GLI standard ocean color data process system at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).  相似文献   

Different partitioning among thorium isotopes in seawater of the Northern North pacific     

Shizuo Tsunogai  Mitsuhiro Kawasaki  Koh Harada 《Journal of Oceanography》1994,50(2):197-207

Each about 400 l of seawater sample was collected in the northern North Pacific and filtered through a membrane filter. Four radioisotopes of thorium,²³²Th,²³⁰Th,²²⁸Th and²³⁴Th, were determined for the two FractionsF (filtrate) andP (particles on the filter). In the percentages of FractionP in the subsurface water,²³⁰Th was significantly larger than other 3 isotopes, and²³²Th was significantly smaller than other 3 isotopes. The former finding can be explained by the slower rates in the reversible change between the FractionsF andP. The latter one, however, cannot be explained if thorium isotopes in the FractionF are truly dissolved with the same chemical form. This suggests that major part of the FractionF of²³²Th is not identical with those of other radiogenic thorium isotopes, and it should not be composed of simple dissolved ions. The removal of radiogenic²³⁴Th was related to the biological activity, but there was a deviation, between the FractionP and radioactivity deficiency of²³⁴Th in their vertical profiles. The deviation was similar to that between the chlorophylla and phaeo-pigments contents including their maximum depths.  相似文献   

Computational Earthquake Physics PART II: Introduction     

Xiang-chu Yin  Peter Mora  Andrea Donnellan  Mitsuhiro Matsu'ura 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2006,163(11-12):2259-2261

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Relation between dislocation density and subgrain size of naturally deformed olivine in peridotites   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Mitsuhiro Toriumi 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1979,68(2):181-186

The subgrain size and the dislocation density of subgrain interiors were measured by the oxidation-decoration method under the optical microscope on naturally deformed olivine from peridotite xenoliths and alpine-type peridotites. Relation of the subgrain size, d and the dislocation density, , within subgrains is represented by the equation, d=15/. Combining with relations of the differential stress and the dislocation density proposed by Kohlstedt and Goetze (1974), relation between the stress () and the subgrain size becomes d=45 Gb/, where G and b are the rigidity and the magnitude of the Burgers vector of olivine. This relation is in good agreement with those in a simple oxide (MgO), and alkali halides (NaCl, LiF) given by Hüther and Reppich (1973), Poirier (1972), and Streb and Reppich (1973), respectively.  相似文献   

Lateral variation of differential stress in the uppermost mantle across the island arc of southwest Japan     

Mitsuhiro Toriumi 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1980,48(2):371-378

The dislocation density and the subgrain size of olivine in peridotite xenoliths in southwest Japan were investigated in order to draw out the lateral variation of the differential stress in the upper mantle of the island arc. Alkali basaltic and andesitic dykes including peridotite xenoliths of Dogo, Kikuma, and Shingu are situated about 200 km behind the Nankai Trough, and those of Oki-Dogo and Takashima located at the portions 400–500 km apart from the trough. The mean dislocation densities of olivine are 2 × 10⁶ cm^?2 for Oki-Dogo, 8 × 10⁶ cm^?2 for Takashima, 1 × 10⁷ cm^?2 for Hamada, 5 × 10⁷ cm^?2 for Aratoyama, 4 × 10⁷ cm^?2 for Kikuma, 3 × 10⁷ cm^?2 for Dogo, and 5 × 10⁶ cm^?2 for Shingu peridotites.It is concluded that the differential stress is high in the uppermost mantle beneath the island arc and low in the back-arc and the mantle wedge behind the plate boundary. The lateral variation of stress may be due to the diapiric upwelling of upper mantle materials under the island arc. The size of the diapir is suggested to be 200 km in width and 60–150 km in depth.  相似文献   

Physics-Based 3-D Simulation for Earthquake Generation Cycles at Plate Interfaces in Subduction Zones     

Chihiro Hashimoto  Eiichi Fukuyama  Mitsuhiro Matsu’ura 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2014,171(8):1705-1728

The generation of interplate earthquakes can be regarded as a process of tectonic stress accumulation and release, driven by relative plate motion. We completed a physics-based simulation system for earthquake generation cycles at plate interfaces in the Japan region, where the Pacific plate is descending beneath the North American and Philippine Sea plates, and the Philippine Sea plate is descending beneath the North American and Eurasian plates. The system is composed of a quasi-static tectonic loading model and a dynamic rupture propagation model, developed on a realistic 3-D plate interface model. The driving force of the system is relative plate motion. In the quasi-static tectonic loading model, mechanical interaction at plate interfaces is rationally represented by the increase of tangential displacement discontinuity (fault slip) across them on the basis of dislocation theory for an elastic surface layer overlying Maxwell-type viscoelastic half-space. In the dynamic rupture propagation model, stress changes due to fault slip motion on non-planar plate interfaces are evaluated with the boundary integral equation method. The progress of seismic (dynamic) or aseismic (quasi-static) fault slip on plate interfaces is governed by a slip- and time-dependent fault constitutive law. As an example, we numerically simulated earthquake generation cycles at the source region of the 1968 Tokachi-oki earthquake on the North American-Pacific plate interface. From the numerical simulation, we can see that postseismic stress relaxation in the asthenosphere accelerates stress accumulation in the source region. When the stress state of the source region is close to a critical level, dynamic rupture is rapidly accelerated and develops over the whole source region. When the stress state is much lower than the critical level, the rupture is not accelerated. This means that the stress state realized by interseismic tectonic loading essentially controls the subsequent dynamic rupture process.  相似文献