A Late Cretaceous mammalian dentary from the Ashizawa Formation (Futaba Group), Fukushima,northeastern Japan          下载免费PDF全文

Nao Kusuhashi  Tadashi Suzuki  Kazuaki Terui  Atsushi Sato  Romain Amiot 《Island Arc》2016,25(6):403-409

A mammalian dentary discovered in the Coniacian Ashizawa Formation (Fukushima, northeastern Japan) is described. The specimen is a fragment of the horizontal ramus of a left edentulous dentary with five alveoli, the distal four of which are plugged with broken roots. Based on the morphologies of the dentary and the roots, it is considered to be of a therian mammal. This constitutes the first discovery of a Mesozoic mammal in northeastern Japan and highlights the potential for future mammal discoveries in the Cretaceous System in northeastern Japan, which will be significant for disclosure of the mammalian faunal evolution in East Asia during the Late Cretaceous.  相似文献   

The early Miocene (~25 Ma) volcanism in the northern Kyushu-Palau Ridge,enriched mantle source injection during rifting prior to the Shikoku backarc basin opening   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

Satoru Haraguchi  Teruaki Ishii  Jun-Ichi Kimura  Yasuhiro Kato 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2012,163(3):483-504

The northern Kyushu-Palau Ridge (KPR), remnant conjugate arc of the Izu-Ogasawara (Bonin)-Mariana (IBM) active arc, is dominated by basalt-andesite except for the Komahashi-Daini Seamount where acidic plutonic rocks of 38 Ma were recovered. These mafic to intermediate volcanics are produced by the rifting volcanism in the proto-IBM arc associated with spreading of the Shikoku Basin. The HFSE and HREE contents and ratios of these volcanics indicate enriched source mantle composition compared to recent volcanic front. The LILE ratios exhibit similar characteristics to reararc volcanism of the recent Izu arc, and some enriched volcanics exhibit high abundance of sediment melt inputs. Based on these observations and compilations of the published data set, the replacement event of the wedge mantle under the IBM arc occurred two times. The first event occurred between 45 and 38 Ma, with Pacific type mantle being replaced by depleted Indian type mantle. The second event occurred between 36 and 25 Ma, enriched mantle flowed from reararc side. The slab component during the proto-IBM arc rifting was a similar characteristic to recent reararc volcanism of the Izu arc, and sediment melt added in a local area.  相似文献   

Chemical characteristics of chromian spinel in plutonic rocks: Implications for deep magma processes and discrimination of tectonic setting   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Shoji Arai  Hidenobu Okamura  Kazuyuki Kadoshima  Chima Tanaka  Kenji Suzuki  Satoko Ishimaru 《Island Arc》2011,20(1):125-137

We summarize chemical characteristics of chromian spinels from ultramafic to mafic plutonic rocks (lherzolites, harzburgites, dunites, wehrlites, troctolites, olivine gabbros) with regard to three tectonic settings (mid‐ocean ridge, arc, oceanic hotspot). The chemical range of spinels is distinguishable between the three settings in terms of Cr# (= Cr/(Cr + Al) atomic ratio) and Ti content. The relationships are almost parallel with those of chromian spinels in volcanic rocks, but the Ti content is slightly lower in plutonics than in volcanics at a given tectonic environment. The Cr# of spinels in plutonic rocks is highly diverse; its ranges overlap between the three settings, but extend to higher values (up to 0.8) in arc and oceanic hotspot environments. The Ti content of spinels in plutonics increases, for a given lithology, from the arc to oceanic hotspot settings by mid‐ocean ridge on average. This chemical diversity is consistent with that of erupted magmas from the three settings. If we systematically know the chemistry of chromian spinels from a series of plutonic rocks, we can estimate their tectonic environments of formation. The spinel chemistry is especially useful in dunitic rocks, in which chromian spinel is the only discriminating mineral. Applying this, discordant dunites cutting mantle peridotites were possibly precipitated from arc‐related magmas in the Oman ophiolite, and from an intraplate tholeiite in the Lizard ophiolite, Cornwall.  相似文献   

Pressure and temperature dependence of the viscosity of a NaAlSi<Subscript>2</Subscript>O<Subscript>6</Subscript> melt     

Akio Suzuki  Eiji Ohtani  Hidenori Terasaki  Keisuke Nishida  Hiromi Hayashi  Tatsuya Sakamaki  Yuki Shibazaki  Takumi Kikegawa 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》2011,38(1):59-64

The viscosity of a silicate melt of composition NaAlSi₂O₆ was measured at pressures from 1.6 to 5.5 GPa and at temperatures from 1,350 to 1,880°C. We employed in situ falling sphere viscometry using X-ray radiography. We found that the viscosity of the NaAlSi₂O₆ melt decreased with increasing pressure up to 2 GPa. The pressure dependence of viscosity is diminished above 2 GPa. By using the relationship between the logarithm of viscosity and the reciprocal temperature, the activation energies for viscous flow were calculated to be 3.7 ± 0.4 × 10² and 3.7 ± 0.5 × 10² kJ/mol at 2.2 and 2.9 GPa, respectively.  相似文献   

Importance of intracellular Fe pools on growth of marine diatoms by using unialgal cultures and on the Oyashio region phytoplankton community during spring     

Koji Sugie  Kenshi Kuma  Satoshi Fujita  Satomi Ushizaka  Koji Suzuki  Tsutomu Ikeda 《Journal of Oceanography》2011,67(2):183-196

We report on the ability for luxury Fe uptake and the potential for growth utilizing intracellular Fe pools for 4 coastal centric diatom isolates and in situ phytoplankton assemblages, mainly composed of diatoms. Iron uptake of the diatom isolates and natural phytoplankton assemblages in the Oyashio region during spring blooms were prevented by adding hydroxamate siderophore desferrioxamine B (DFB). After the addition of DFB, intracellular Fe in the diatom isolates supported 2.4–4.2 cell divisions with 1.2–2.6 Chl a doublings. The intracellular Fe was primarily used for cell generation rather than Chl a production, leading to a reduction in the Chl a cell quota in the Fe-starved cells with time. The metabolic properties of the Fe-starved cells with their cell morphologies were different among species or genera. An on-deck incubation experiment also exhibited 1.9 cell divisions and 0.81 Chl a doublings of phytoplankton after the addition of DFB, also indicating the preference of cell generation over Chl a production. A decrease in the level of cellular Chl a, a main light-harvesting pigment in Fe-starved diatoms, may become a superior survival strategy to protect the cells from high irradiance that can cause photo-oxidative damages through photosynthesis. Such relatively low-Fe with high-light conditions could often occur in surface waters of the Oyashio region from spring to summer.  相似文献   

Formation process of pyrite polyframboid based on the heavy-metal analysis by micro-PIXE     

Hisanari Sugawara  Masayuki Sakakibara  David Belton  Tetsuya Suzuki 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2013,69(3):811-819

Pyrite framboid in sedimentary rocks could be concerned with arsenic contamination in groundwater of acidic environment and has been studied for the formation process of its unique morphology. However, not much has been discussed about the formation process based on the heavy-metal distribution in pyrite framboids and their aggregates. To reveal the formation process of pyrite framboids and their aggregates, mudstone from the Late Cretaceous Hakobuchi Group, central Hokkaido, Japan, are investigated for mode, petrographical, mineralogical, and micro-PIXE (particle-induced X-ray emission) analysis in this study. Spherical and sub-spherical pyrite framboids observed in polyframboids can be divided into two types based on the diameter of framboids (D) and the average diameter of microcrystals (d) within framboids: type 1, ranging from 2 to 9 μm and from 0.4 to 0.9 μm, respectively, and type 2, ranging from 8 to 50 μm and from 0.5 to 1.8 μm, respectively. Based on the quantitative traverse analyses and 2-D elemental mapping results by micro-PIXE, heterogeneities in the concentrations of heavy metals within the analyzed aggregations of pyrite are exhibited. On the basis of the As and Pb zoning patterns, the time range and chronological stages of pyrite-aggregation growth are revealed.  相似文献   

A study of the morphology of winter sprites in the Hokuriku area of Japan in relation to cloud charge height     

K. Myokei  Y. Matsudo  T. Asano  T. Suzuki  Y. Hobara  K. Michimoto  M. Hayakawa 《Journal of Atmospheric and Solar》2009,71(5):597-602

Continuous observations of sprites in the Hokuriku area of Japan were performed from two optical sites during the three winter periods. The purpose of this observation is to study the major effect in the appearance of sprites and in determining the morphology of sprites (columns or carrots). Detailed analysis is performed based on the estimation of the height of ?10 °C at the time of sprite occurrence. When the height of ?10 °C is lower than 1800 m, the occurrence of sprites is infrequent, and the dominant shape is column. Then when it is increased (1800–3000 m), a new situation takes place, namely the occurrence of sprites is very enhanced and more spectacular shapes like carrots tend to be frequently observed in addition to column sprites. These sprite characteristics are first compared with those of parent lightning in the Hokuriku area and with our latest computer simulations on sprite initiation.  相似文献   

Three-dimensional EM computer simulation on sprite initiation above a horizontal lightning discharge     

T. Asano  T. Suzuki  M. Hayakawa  M.G. Cho 《Journal of Atmospheric and Solar》2009,71(8-9):983-990

The purpose of this paper is to study the three-dimensional (3D) effects of the source current and the electromagnetic (EM) pulse on the distribution of upper atmospheric electric field and ionization created. A new lightning model has been employed; i.e., we have included a horizontal channel in addition to the conventional vertical channel. The effects of the horizontal lightning channel are summarized as follows: (1) the effect of a vertical channel plays a fundamental role in the whole view of sprite initiation; (2) the position of a sprite is shifted from the position of its parent vertical channel in response to the length of a horizontal channel; and (3) we observe very fine structures with local maxima and minima in the “reduced” electric field (the electric field divided by the neutral gas density). These theoretical inferences are discussed and compared with the observational facts so far reported (such as lateral shift of sprites, morphological difference of sprites, etc.).  相似文献   

Numerical simulations of mantle flow around slab edges     

Satoru Honda 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》2009,277(1-2):112-122

A simple kinematic-dynamic model of mantle flow around the slab-edge is constructed in order to understand the flow complexity there. The flow velocity on the top and the small boundary region around the shallow plate boundary is kinematically imposed in order to achieve a subduction-like feature and the flow in other part is dynamically calculated. The geometry of the plate mimics the region around the junction of Aleutian Islands and Kamchatka, that are examples of the convergent-transform fault plate boundaries. In a simple model in which the overlying plate is almost stationary, the lateral flow from the mantle under the subducting slab to the mantle under the neighboring plate is of minor importance, once the slab penetrates into the high viscosity layer where the downward flow encounters the resistance. Similar situation was found when the trench is advancing, that is, the trench moves toward the overlying plate. For the case with retreating trench, that is, the trench moves toward the subducting plate, a lateral flow exists even after the slab penetrates into the high viscosity layer, although its magnitude is significantly smaller than that of the plate velocity. The presence of a low viscosity layer just beneath the subducting plate may promote the emergence of lateral flow. A significant lateral flow is observed when the high temperature anomaly, that is, buoyant and low viscosity block carried by the movement of subducting plate, approaches the slab. These results may have important implications for the possible existence of trench parallel flow in the sub-slab mantle.  相似文献   

The Higo High-Grade Metamorphic Rocks in Japan as a Part of the Collisional Terrane Between the Sino-Korean and Yangtze Craton     

Yasuhito Osanai  Takuji Hamamoto  Hiroo Kagami  Kazuhiro Suzuki  Masaaki Owada  Atsushi Kamei   《Gondwana Research》1999,2(4):599-601

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