Comparison of stable isotopes,ratios of Cl/Cl and I/I in brine and deep groundwater from the Pacific coastal region and the eastern margin of the Japan Sea     

Yasunori Mahara  Tomoko Ohta  Tomochika Tokunaga  Hiroyuki Matsuzaki  Eiji Nakata  Yuki Miyamoto  Yukihiro Mizuochi  Toshiharu Tashiro  Masahiro Ono  Toshifumi Igarashi  Keisuke Nagao 《Applied Geochemistry》2012

Fifty-three samples, including brines associated with oil and natural gas reservoirs and groundwater samples from deep boreholes, were collected from the Pacific and Japan Sea coastal regions in Japan. The ¹²⁹I/¹²⁷I and ³⁶Cl/Cl ratios, and stable isotopes (δD and δ¹⁸O) are compared to investigate differences related to the geotectonic settings of the two regions. The δD and δ¹⁸O data indicate that brine and groundwater from the Pacific coastal region reflect mixing of meteoric water with connate seawater in the pores of sedimentary rocks. On the other hand, brine and groundwater from the Japan Sea coastal region have been hydrothermally altered. In particular, brines associated with petroleum accumulations at Niigata and Akita showed the same isotopic characteristics as fluids found in the Kuroko deposits of the Green Tuff region in northeastern Japan. There is little difference in the ³⁶Cl/Cl ratios in brine and groundwater from the Pacific and Japan Sea coasts. Most brine and some deep groundwater, except those from the Pleistocene Kazusa Group, have already reached the average secular equilibrium ratio of 9.9 ± 2.7 × 10⁻¹⁵ for their mudstone and sandstone reservoirs. There was no correlation between the ³⁶Cl/Cl ratios and differences in geotectonic setting between the Pacific and the Japan Sea coast. The molar I/Br ratio suggests that the I in all of water samples was of biogenic origin. The average ¹²⁹I/¹²⁷I ratio was 290 ± 130 × 10⁻¹⁵ to 294 ± 105 × 10⁻¹⁵ in both regions, showing no relationship to the different geotectonic settings. The uncontaminated brine and groundwater samples are likely to have retained the original ¹²⁹I/¹²⁷I ratios of marine I released from the old organic matter stored in sedimentary rock.  相似文献   

Ceramic waste glass fiber-reinforced plastic-containing filtering materials for turbid water treatment     

Kentaro Yasui  Shogo Goto  Hiroyuki Kinoshita  Shuta Kamiunten  Toshifumi Yuji  Yoshimi Okamura  Narong Mungkung  Mitsuhiro Sezaki 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2016,75(15):1135

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Evaluation of air-sea sensible and latent heat fluxes over the Japan Sea obtained from satellite,atmospheric reanalysis,and objective analysis products     

Hiroyuki Tomita  Tomoharu Senjyu  Masahisa Kubota 《Journal of Oceanography》2016,72(5):747-760

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Nutrient status of Otsuchi Bay (northeastern Japan) following the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake     

Hideki Fukuda  Ryosuke Katayama  Yanhui Yang  Hiroyuki Takasu  Yuichiro Nishibe  Atsushi Tsuda  Toshi Nagata 《Journal of Oceanography》2016,72(1):39-52

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Mechanisms Controlling the Undrained Strength Behavior of Remolded Ariake Marine Clays     

Asuri Sridharan  Ahmed El-Shafei  Norihiko Miura 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2013,31(1):21-50

The soft clay of Ariake Bay, in western Kyushu, Japan covers several hundred square kilometers. Ariake clay consists of the principal clay minerals namely smectite, illite, kaolinite and vermiculite, and other minerals in lesser quantity. The percentage of the principal clay mineral can vary significantly. The percent clay size fraction and the salt concentration can also vary significantly. In view of the importance of undrained shear strength in geotechnical engineering practice, its behavior has been studied with respect to variation in salt concentration. Basically two mechanisms control the undrained strength in clays, namely (a) cohesion or undrained strength is due to the net interparticle attractive forces, or (b) cohesion is due to the viscous nature of the double layer water. Concept (a) operates primarily for kaolinitic soil, and concept (b) dominates primarily for montmorillonitic soils. In Ariake clay, different clay minerals with different exchangeable cations and varying ion concentration in the pore water and varying nonclay size fraction are present. In view of this while both concepts (a) and (b) can coexist and operate simultaneously, one of the mechanisms dominates. For Isahaya clay, concept (a), factors responsible for an increase in level of flocculation and attractive forces result in higher undrained strength. Increase in salt concentration increases the remolded undrained strength at any moisture content. For Kubota and Kawazoe clays, concept (b) factors responsible for an expansion of diffuse double layer thickness, resulting in higher viscous resistance, increase the undrained shear strength, that is, as concentration decreases, the undrained strength increases at any moisture content. The liquid limit of Isahaya clay increases with increase in ion concentration and a marginal decrease is seen for both Kubota and Kawazoe clays, and their behavior has been explained satisfactorily.  相似文献   

First records of Scorpaena onaria (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) from the southwestern Pacific Ocean,and comparisons with the Northern Hemisphere population     

Hiroyuki Motomura  Chris D. Paulin  Andrew L. Stewart 《新西兰海洋与淡水研究杂志》2013,47(4):865-880

Scorpaena onaria Jordan & Snyder (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae), previously known only from the northwestern Pacific Ocean, is reported from the southwestern Pacific Ocean for the first time on the basis of 19 specimens. The southwestern Pacific specimens are regarded as a southern population of S. onaria, characterised by a shorter supraocular tentacle and larger body size compared with the northwestern Pacific specimens. The southern population is described in detail including comparisons with all known Indo‐Pacific species of the genus Scorpaena. Analyses of 37 measurements of the southern population of S. onaria found that relative orbit diameter and second anal‐fin spine length became significantly smaller with growth. Initially cycloid, the scales enclosed by the posterior tips of the upper and lower opercular spines and opercular margin change to ctenoid with growth at c. 160–170 mm standard length. A mature female differed from an immature female and males in having a longer upper jaw, steeper dorsal profile of the snout, and shorter nasal spine. As a consequence, the species previously reported as S. neglecta from the Andaman Sea and northwestern Australia was re‐identified as S. onaria.  相似文献   

Compositional Variation of Hydrothermally Altered Volcanic Rocks in Hishikari Gold Epithermal System: A Useful Geochemical Indicator of Gold–Silver Epithermal Mineralization     

Naotatsu Shikazono  Hiroyuki Takahashi 《Resource Geology》2010,60(2):117-128

The hydrothermally altered andesite hosting the Hishikari gold-silver vein deposits in southern Kyushu, Japan, is analyzed with respect to the spatial variation in chemical composition. The (CaO + Na₂O) content is found to be inversely correlated with the K₂O content as it progresses away from the site of mineralization. It was found that analytical data plotted on a (CaO + Na₂O) − K₂O diagram cannot be explained only by addition of K⁺ from the hydrothermal solution to the original rock and release of Ca²⁺ and Na⁺ from the original rock (K- alteration). Addition of Ca²⁺ and Na⁺ from the hydrothermal solution to the rock and release of K⁺ from the rock but release of K⁺, Ca²⁺, and Na⁺ to the hydrothermal solution (advanced argillic alteration) is important for causing the wide variations in K₂O, CaO, and Na₂O contents on the (CaO + Na₂O) − K₂O diagram. These variations can be explained by superimposed potassic, advanced argillic and calcium alterations. The altered rocks in the Honko-Sanjin area, Yamada area, and Masaki area analyzed by this study are characterized by their intermediate K₂O content and variable CaO content, high K₂O content and low CaO content, and low K₂O content and low CaO content, respectively. The K₂O, Na₂O and CaO contents and oxygen isotopic composition of altered andesite, in conjunction with the solubility of gold as a thio complex, suggest that both gold deposition and the observed compositional variation of altered andesite are the result of mixing between acidic groundwater and neutral gold-bearing hydrothermal solution. The present results indicate that the compositional variation of hydrothermally altered rocks may represent a useful geochemical indicator of epithermal gold–silver mineralization.  相似文献