First Report of Sapphirine+Quartz Assemblage from Southern India: Implications for Ultrahigh-temperature Metamorphism   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Keiko Tateishi  Toshiaki Tsunogae  M. Santosh  A.S. Janardhan 《Gondwana Research》2004,7(4):899-912

We report here for the first time, the occurrence of sapphirine+quartz assemblage in textural equilibrium from quartzo-feldspathic and pelitic granulites from southern India. The sapphirine-bearing rocks occur as layered gneisses associated with pink granite within massive charnockite in Rajapalaiyam area in the southern part of Madurai Block. Sapphirine occurs in three associations: (i) fine-grained subhedral mineral associated with quartz enclosed in garnet, (ii) intergrowth with Al-rich orthopyroxene (up to 9.7 wt.% Al₂O₃), and (iii) in symplectitic intergrowth with orthopyroxene (Al₂O₃= 5.9–6.7 wt.%) and cordierite surrounding garnet. The sapphirine in association with quartz is slightly magnesian (X_Mg = 0.79–0.80) and low in Si content (1.55–1.56 pfu) as compared with those associated with orthopyroxene and cordierite (X_Mg= 0.77–0.79, Si = 1.59–1.63 pfu). The sapphirine+quartz assemblage suggests that the granulites underwent T>1050 °C peak metamorphism. Cores of porphyroblastic orthopyroxene in the sapphirine-bearing rocks shows high-Al₂O₃ content of up to 9.7 wt.%, suggesting T = 1040–1060°C and P = 8 kbar. FMAS reaction of sapphirine+quartz→garnet+sillimanite+cordierite indicates a cooling from sapphirine+quartz stability field after the peak ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism. Slightly lower temperature estimates from ternary feldspar and sapphirine-spinel geothermometers (T = 950–1000°C) also support a post-peak isobaric cooling. Corona textures of orthopyroxene+cordierite (±sapphirine), orthopyroxene+sapphirine, and cordierite+spinel around garnet suggest subsequent decompression. The sapphirine-quartz association and related textures reported in this study have important bearing on the ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism and exhumation history of the Madurai Block as well as on the tectonic evolution of the continental deep crust in southern India.  相似文献   

Magnetic grain‐size distribution of the enhanced component in the loess–palaeosol sequences in the western Loess Plateau of China     

Toshiaki Mishima  Masayuki Torii  Hitoshi Fukusawa  Yugo Ono  Xiao-Min Fang  Bao-Tian Pan  Ji-Jun Li 《Geophysical Journal International》2001,145(2):499-504

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Underground oil storage facilities in Japan     

Toshiaki Makita  Yoshiharu Miyanaga  Keiji Iguchi  Teruyoshi Hatano 《Engineering Geology》1993,35(3-4):191-198

In Japan, three underground crude-oil storage facilities with a total capacity of 5 million kl are under construction as a chain of the national oil storage project. Because the NATM method was used in this project, we applied a systematic work control system, consisting ofin situ measurements and engineering geological observations, including an original rock-mass classification system. The classification system used can be slightly modified depending upon site-specific geological conditions and the purposes of the facilities such as, i.e., an artificial water sealing system.  相似文献   

Ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism in the Achankovil Zone: Implications for the correlation of crustal blocks in southern India   总被引：1，自引：3，他引：1  

Shunsuke Ishii  Toshiaki Tsunogae  M. Santosh 《Gondwana Research》2006,10(1-2):99

The Achankovil Zone of southern India, a NW–SE trending lineament of 8–10 km in width and > 100 km length, is a kinematically debated crustal feature, considered to mark the boundary between the Madurai Granulite Block in the north and the Trivandrum Granulite Block in the south. Both these crustal blocks show evidence for ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism during the Pan-African orogeny, although the exhumation styles are markedly different. The Achankovil Zone is characterized by discontinuous strands of cordierite-bearing gneiss with an assemblage of cordierite + garnet + quartz + plagioclase + spinel + ilmenite + magnetite ± orthopyroxene ± biotite ± K-feldspar ± sillimanite. The lithology preserves several peak and post-peak metamorphic assemblages including: (1) orthopyroxene + garnet, (2) perthite and/or anti-perthite, (3) cordierite ± orthopyroxene corona around garnet, and (4) cordierite + quartz symplectite after garnet. We estimate the peak metamorphic conditions of these rocks using orthopyroxene-bearing geothermobarometers and feldspar solvus which yield 8.5–9.5 kbar and 940–1040 °C, the highest P–T conditions so far recorded from the Achankovil Zone. The retrograde conditions were obtained from cordierite-bearing geothermobarometers at 3.5–4.5 kbar and 720 ± 60 °C. From orthopyroxene chemistry, we record a multistage exhumation history for these rocks, which is closely comparable with those reported in recent studies from the Madurai Granulite Block, but different from those documented from the Trivandrum Granulite Block. An evaluation of the petrologic and geochronologic data, together with the nature of exhumation paths leads us to propose that the Achankovil Zone is probably the southern flank of the Madurai Granulite Block, and not a unit of the Trivandrum Granulite Block as presently believed. Post-tectonic alkali granites that form an array of “suturing plutons” along the margin of the Madurai Granulite Block and within the Achankovil Zone, but are absent in the Trivandrum Granulite Block, suggest that the boundary between the Madurai Granulite Block and the Trivandrum Granulite Block might lie along the Tenmalai shear zone at the southern extremity of the Achankovil Zone.  相似文献   

Uniform network transformation for points pattern analysis on a non-uniform network     

Atsuyuki Okabe  Toshiaki Satoh 《Journal of Geographical Systems》2006,8(1):25-37

In the real world, there are many kinds of phenomena that are represented by points on a network, such as traffic accidents on a street network. To analyse these phenomena, the basic point pattern methods (i.e. the nearest neighbour distance method, the quadrat method, the K-function method and the clumping method) defined on a plane (referred to as the planar basic point pattern methods) are extended to the basic point pattern methods on a network (referred to as the network basic point pattern methods). However, like the planar basic point pattern methods, the network basic point pattern methods assume a uniform network and this assumption is hard to accept when analysing actual phenomena. To overcome this limitation, this paper formulates a transformation, called the uniform network transformation, that transforms a non-uniform network into a uniform network. This transformation provides a simple procedure for analysing point patterns on non-uniform networks: first, a given non-uniform network is transformed into a uniform network; second, the network basic point pattern methods (which assume a uniform network) are applied to this transformed uniform network. No modification to the network basic point pattern methods is necessary. The paper also shows an actual application of this transformation to traffic accidents in Chosei, Japan.  相似文献   

Palaeoproterozoic U–Pb SHRIMP zircon age from basement rocks in Bangladesh: A possible remnant of the Columbia supercontinent     

Ismail Hossain  Toshiaki Tsunogae  Hariharan M. Rajesh  Bin Chen  Yoji Arakawa 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2007,339(16):979-986

We present new U–Pb SHRIMP zircon geochronological data for basement rocks in Bangladesh, and discuss the relationship with the formation of the Columbia supercontinent. Euhedral zircons from a diorite sample yield a concordia age of 1730 ± 11 Ma, which is interpreted as the crystallization age. The Palaeoproterozoic age of the examined basement rock and the common occurrences of similar 1.7-Ga geologic units in the Central Indian Tectonic Zone and Meghalaya-Shillong Plateau in Indian Shield suggest their apparent continuation. This, together with the occurrence of similar 1.7-Ga geologic units in the Albany-Fraser belt in Australia and East Antarctica, are used to suggest that the basement rocks in Bangladesh formed towards the final stages of the assembly of the Columbia supercontinent.  相似文献   

Detrital zircon geochronology of the Lutzow-Holm Complex,East Antarctica:Implications for Antarctica-Sri Lanka correlation     

Yusuke Takamura  Toshiaki Tsunogae  M.Santosh  Yukiyasu Tsutsumi 《地学前缘(英文版)》2018,(2)

The Lützow-Holm Complex(LHC) of East Antarctica has been regarded as a collage of Neoarchean(ca.2.5 Ga), Paleoproterozoic(ca. 1.8 Ga), and Neoproterozoic(ca. 1.0 Ga) magmatic arcs which were amalgamated through the latest Neoproterozoic collisional events during the assembly of Gondwana supercontinent. Here, we report new geochronological data on detrital zircons in metasediments associated with the magmatic rocks from the LHC, and compare the age spectra with those in the adjacent terranes for evaluating the tectonic correlation of East Antarctica and Sri Lanka. Cores of detrital zircon grains with high Th/U ratio in eight metasediment samples can be subdivided into two dominant groups:(1) late Meso-to Neoproterozoic(1.1-0.63 Ga) zircons from the northeastern part of the LHC in Prince Olav Coast and northern Soya Coast areas, and(2) dominantly Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic(2.8-2.4 Ga) zircons from the southwestern part of the LHC in southern Lutzow-Holm Bay area. The ca.1.0 Ga and ca. 2.5 Ga magmatic suites in the LHC could be proximal provenances of the detrital zircons in the northeastern and southwestern LHC, respectively. Subordinate middle to late Mesoproterozoic(1.3-1.2 Ga) detrital zircons obtained from Akarui Point and Langhovde could have been derived from adjacent Gondwana fragments(e.g., Rayner Complex, Eastern Ghats Belt). Meso-to Neoproterozoic domains such as Vijayan and Wanni Complexes of Sri Lanka, the southern Madurai Block of southern India, and the central-western Madagascar could be alternative distal sources of the late Meso-to Neoproterozoic zircons. Paleo-to Mesoarchean domains in India, Africa, and Antarctica might also be distal sources for the minor ~2.8 Ga detrital zircons from Skallevikshalsen. The detrital zircons from the Highland Complex of Sri Lanka show similar Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic(ca. 2.5 Ga) and Neoproterozoic(ca. 1.0 Ga) ages, which are comparable with those of the LHC, suggesting that the two complexes might have formed under similar tectonic regimes. We consider that the Highland Complex and metasedimentary unit of the LHC formed a unified latest Neoproterozoic suture zone with a large block of northern LH-Vijayan Complex caught up as remnant of the ca. 1.0 Ga magmatic arc.  相似文献   

An assessment of uncertainties in VS profiles obtained from microtremor observations in the phased 2018 COSMOS blind trials     

Asten  Michael W.  Yong  Alan  Foti  Sebastiano  Hayashi  Koichi  Martin  Antony J.  Stephenson  William J.  Cassidy  John F.  Coleman  Jacie  Nigbor  Robert  Castellaro  Silvia  Chimoto  Kosuke  Cornou  Cécile  Cho  Ikuo  Hayashida  Takumi  Hobiger  Manuel  Kuo  Chun-Hsiang  Macau  Albert  Mercerat  E. Diego  Molnar  Sheri  Pananont  Passakorn  Pilz  Marco  Poovarodom  Nakhorn  Sáez  Esteban  Wathelet  Marc  Yamanaka  Hiroaki  Yokoi  Toshiaki  Zhao  Don 《Journal of Seismology》2022,26(4):757-780

Journal of Seismology - Site response is a critical consideration when assessing earthquake hazards. Site characterization is key to understanding site effects as influenced by seismic site...  相似文献   

A Collaborative Research on Combating Desertification in Naiman,Inner Mongolia,China with Institute of Desert Research,CAS——Results of Desertification Monitoring Using RS and GIS     

ToshiakiImagawa 《中国沙漠》2000,20(2)

奈曼地区的沙漠化以固定沙丘的活化为特征。研究利用陆地卫星资料监测地被物和土地利用变化的方法以分析沙漠化的进展。天然植被、结构和土壤红度指数对分析沙漠化现状及发展趋势很有效。研究证实 ,典型区的沙漠化程度有明显变化 ;对居民区 ,公路及铁路沿线附近地区的土地管理比较重视 ,正在对沙漠化土地进行改良。应用上述方法可以分析沙漠化现状及发展趋势但不能确定其面积的变化。其次根据调查分类提出了地被物和土地利用变化的监测法。此法要求提供一年中两次不同时间的数据。文中还分析使用此法的可能性。最后 ,根据陆地卫星红色谱带反射率与实测生物之间的高度相关性可估算草地的生物量并得出结论 ,从奈曼北部到中部的大部分地区都处于过度放牧状态。  相似文献   

The stability and origin of sodicgedrite in ultrahigh-temperature Mg-Al granulites: a case study from the Gondwana suture in southern India     

Tomohito Kanazawa  Toshiaki Tsunogae  Kei Sato  M. Santosh 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2009,157(1):95-110

Mg-Al-rich rocks from the Palghat-Cauvery Shear Zone System (PCSZ) within the Gondwana suture zone in southern India contain sodicgedrite as one of the prograde to peak phases, stable during T = 900–990°C ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism. Gedrite in these samples is Mg-rich (Mg/[Fe + Mg] = X _Mg = 0.69–0.80) and shows wide variation in Na₂O content (1.4–2.3 wt.%, Na^A = 0.33–0.61 pfu). Gedrite adjacent to kyanite pseudomorph is in part mantled by garnet and cordierite. The gedrite proximal to garnet shows an increase in Na^A and Al^IV from the core (Na^A = 0.40–0.51 pfu, Al^IV = 1.6–1.9 pfu) to the rim (Na^A = 0.49–0.61 pfu, Al^IV = 2.0–2.2 pfu), suggesting the progress of the following dehydration reaction: Ged + Ky → Na-Ged + Grt + Crd + H₂O. This reaction suggests that, as the reactants broke down during the prograde stage, the remaining gedrite became enriched in Na to form sodicgedrite, which is regarded as a unique feature of high-grade rocks with Mg-Al-rich and K–Si-poor bulk chemistry. We carried out high-P-T experimental studies on natural sodicgedrite and the results indicate that gedrite and melt are stable phases at 12 kbar and 1,000°C. However, the product gedrite is Na-poor with only <0.13 wt.% Na₂O (Na^A = 0.015–0.034 pfu). In contrast, the matrix glass contains up to 8.5 wt.% Na₂O, suggesting that, with the progressive melting of the starting material, Na was partitioned into the melt rather than gedrite. The results therefore imply that the occurrence of sodicgedrite in the UHT rocks of the PCSZ is probably due to the low H₂O activity during peak P-T conditions that restricted extensive partial melting in these rocks, leaving Na partitioned into the solid phase (gedrite). The occurrence of abundant primary CO₂-rich fluid inclusions in this rock, which possibly infiltrated along the collisional suture during the final amalgamation of the Gondwana supercontinent, strengthens the inference of low water activity.  相似文献