Millennial‐scale stratigraphy of a tide‐dominated incised valley during the last 14 kyr: Spatial and quantitative reconstruction in the Tokyo Lowland,central Japan          下载免费PDF全文

Susumu Tanabe  Toshimichi Nakanishi  Yoshiro Ishihara  Rei Nakashima 《Sedimentology》2015,62(7):1837-1872

Spatial and quantitative analysis of infilling processes of the tide‐dominated incised valleys beneath the Tokyo Lowland during the last 14 kyr was undertaken by using data from 18 sediment cores, 467 radiocarbon dates and 6100 borehole logs. The post‐Last Glacial Maximum valley fills consist of braided river, meandering river, estuary, spit and delta systems in ascending order. The boundary between the estuary and delta systems is regarded as the maximum flooding surface. The maximum flooding surface beneath the Tokyo Lowland is dated at 8 ka in the Arakawa Valley and 7 ka in the Nakagawa Valley. This age difference is due to the migration of the Tone River from the Arakawa Valley to the Nakagawa Valley at 5 ka, and suggests that the widely held view that the global initiation of deltas coincided with the abrupt rise of sea‐level at 9 to 8 ka is true only where there has been steady sediment supply from major rivers. The meandering river system is dominated by sheet‐like sands that were deposited during lateral migration of channels during the Younger Dryas and isolated vertical sands within muds that reflect vertical aggradation of channels before and after the Younger Dryas. The transition between these channel geometries is controlled by a threshold sea‐level rise of 4 to 7 mm yr^?1. Before migration of the Tone River at 5 ka, the tide‐dominated bay in the Nakagawa Valley was filled by upward‐fining laterally accreting muds. The muds accreted from the margin to the axis of the bay. Such lateral accretion of suspended particles derived from outside the bay has been documented in other tide‐dominated coastal environments and is probably common in other similar settings. After the migration of the Tone River, the bay was filled by upward‐coarsening deltaic sediments.  相似文献   

Mechanisms for outbreak ofHeterosigma akashiwo red tide in Osaka Bay,Japan     

Susumu Yamochi 《Journal of Oceanography》1984,40(5):343-348

  相似文献   

Sedimentation of lithogenic particles in the deep ocean     

Susumu Honjo  Steven J. Manganini  Lawrence J. Poppe 《Marine Geology》1982,50(3):199-220

Investigation of lithogenic particles collected by sediment traps in open-ocean stations revealed that the sediment flux increased linearly with depth in the water column. This rate of increase decreased with distance of the station from the continent; it was largest at the Panama Basin station and almost negligible at the E. Hawaii Abyssal Plain station. At the Panama Basin station, smectite flux increased with depth. We suggest that smectite resuspended from bottom sediments of the continental slope west of the sediment-trap station is advected by easterly deep currents, and the suspended particles are then possibly entrapped by large settling particles. On the other hand, the flux of hemipelagic clay particles, kaolinite and chlorite, was nearly constant at all depths; this can be explained by incorporation of these particles in fecal pellets which then settle from the surface water. At the Demerara Abyssal Basin Station, flux of illite and chlorite particles increased with depth and the flux of smectite was constant. A sudden increase of the flux of illite and chlorite was observed near the bottom traps at the Söhm Abyssal Plain station. The flux of quartz and feldspar was 10 to 15% of the clay flux.  相似文献   

Effects of temperature on the vegetative cell liberation of seven species of red-tide algae from the bottom mud in Osaka Bay     

Susumu Yamochi  Hisashi Joh 《Journal of Oceanography》1986,42(4):266-275

Mud samples were collected from the eastern coast of Osaka Bay from April 1984 to August 1985 and were incubated atin situ mud temperatures to examine the effects of temperature on the liberation of seven species of red-tide algae. Skeletonema costatum appeared extensively over a wide temperature range of 9–25°C. The percentage of liberation of benthicHeterosigma akashiwo cells tended to decrease with decreasing temperature, but this species also showed high percentages of liberation (40–100 %) in April whenin situ mud temperatures were still low (9.5–10°C). Germination of benthicHeterocapsa triquetra cells was active at temperatures lower than 10°C but was inhibited to below 20% at temperatures higher than 21°C. This indicates that the supply of vegetativeHeterocapsa cells from bottom muds to seawaters becomes inactive from summer to early autumn. The optimum temperature range for the liberation of benthicChattonella sp. cells was 16–21°C. ForProrocentrum micans, Prorocentrum minimum, andProrocentrum triestinum, no vegetative cells were released from bottom mud at any of the temperatures examined (9–25°C).Field observations on the population dynamics of vegetative cells conducted from April to September 1984 revealed that a close link exists between liberation ofS. costatum andH. triquetra and their blooms in the waters of Osaka Bay. On the basis of these findings, the ecological role of benthic cells in initiating red tides in Osaka Bay is discussed.  相似文献   

Planktonic foraminiferal flux to the deep ocean: Sediment trap results from the tropical Atlantic and the central Pacific     

Robert C Thunell  Susumu Honjo 《Marine Geology》1981,40(3-4):237-253

The flux of planktonic foraminifera between 100 μm and 1 mm to the seafloor has been estimated for the central Pacific (abyssal plain east of Hawaii) and the tropical Atlantic (Demerara Abyssal Plain) based on sediment trap samples collected from various water depths. The faunas in each region are quite similar, with 4 to 5 species generally accounting for 70–80% of the total assemblage.

At both study sites, the total foraminiferal flux and the carbonate flux tend to decrease with depth. In addition, the flux of individual species of planktonic foraminifera varies significantly with depth, with the number of small, solution-susceptible species decreasing with increasing water depth. These results suggest that there is significant dissolution of small (< 150 μm) foraminifera as they settle through the water column. Material collected from the sediment-water interface directly below the Pacific sediment trap array contains no planktonic foraminifera, suggesting that the residence time of an individual on the seafloor before it dissolves, is extremely short.  相似文献   

Succession of macrobenthic fauna and nitrogen budget at two artificial tidal flats in Osaka Bay, Japan   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Yamochi S 《Marine pollution bulletin》2008,57(1-5):137-141

Nitrogen budgets and predominant benthic organisms were examined at a matured artificial tidal flat of Osaka Nanko bird sanctuary and an artificial young tidal flat of Hannan Second District, Osaka Bay, Japan. At the Osaka Nanko bird sanctuary, indexes of the quality of the bottom sediment increased over the time course and no abiotic area was observed in the macrobenthic fauna. Dissolved inorganic nitrogen imported into the tidal flat changed its form and was exported in the form of dissolved organic nitrogen. As a result, total nitrogen was trapped at the tidal flat at an average rate of 138 mgN m(-2)day(-1). At the young tidal flat of Hannan Second District net exchange of nitrogen varied markedly among 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003. In September 2000 when only 5 months had passed after construction, the tidal flat functioned as a site of source for nitrogen. However, it changed as a sink for nitrogen in 2001-2002 in relation to the growth of seaweeds (Ulva spp. and Gracilaria vermiculophylla) and clams (Tapes philippinarum). In 2003 nitrogen was again released from the artificial tidal flat due to the decrease of biomass of the dominant organisms. Comparing the nitrogen budget between the two sites on a per unit time and area basis, net exchanges of nitrogen by tidal exchange were apparently low and relatively constant at the tidal flat of Osaka Nanko bird sanctuary. This suggests that the aged artificial tidal flat of Osaka Nanko bird sanctuary has a stable ecosystem compared to the young artificial tidal flat of Hannan Second District.  相似文献   

Building damage concentrated in Longtoushan town during the 2014 Ms. 6.5 Ludian earthquake,Yunnan, China: examination of cause and implications based on ground motion and vulnerability analyses     

Xin Wang  Susumu Kurahashi  Hao Wu  Hongjun Si  Qiang Ma  Ji Dang  Dongwang Tao  Jiwei Feng  Kojiro Irikura 《Journal of Seismology》2017,21(5):1185-1200

Though the 2014 Ludian Earthquake had only a moderate magnitude (Ms 6.5), high-level ground motions of almost 1g occurred at Longtoushan Town (seismic station 53LLT), which located near the intersection of a conjugate-shaped seismogenic fault. The building damages on the pluvial fan and the river terrace at Longtoushan was clearly different. In order to examine the generation of the large acceleration at 53LLT, the focal mechanisms and the rupture processes of the conjugate-shaped seismogenic fault were determined. We found that there were two continuous impulsive waves in the records of 53LLT that were generated from two different faults, the Baogunao fault and the Xiaohe fault, respectively. Site effects on the pluvial fan and the river terrace at Longtoushan Town and their relations to different building damages were examined. We found that the predominant period at the pluvial fan was about 0.25 s, close to the fundamental natural period of multi-story confined masonry buildings. Ground motions on the pluvial fan and the river terrace were simulated through convolving synthesized bedrock motions with the transfer functions, which were analyzed using the one-dimensional underground velocity structures identified from H/V spectral ratios of ambient noise. Building collapse ratios (CRs) are estimated based on the vulnerability function of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake and are compared with the observed values. We found that the observed building CRs on the pluvial fan are much higher than the estimated values. High-level ground shaking that is far beyond the design level was a reason for serious building damage.  相似文献   

Particulate organic carbon fluxes to the ocean interior and factors controlling the biological pump: A synthesis of global sediment trap programs since 1983   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Susumu Honjo  Steven J. Manganini  Roger Francois 《Progress in Oceanography》2008,76(3):217-285

Particulate organic carbon (POC) is vertically transported to the oceanic interior by aggregates and their ballasts, mainly CaCO₃ and biogenic opal, with a smaller role for lithogenic aerosols through the mesopelagic zone. Diel migrating zooplankton communities effect vertical transport and remineralization of POC in the upper layers of the ocean. Below 1.5 km, the presence of zooplankton is reduced and thus the aggregates travel mainly by gravitational transport. We normalized the fluxes of POC, CaCO₃, and biogenic opal from data published on samples collected at 134 globally distributed, bottom-tethered, time-series sediment trap (TS-trap) stations to annual mole fluxes at the mesopelagic/bathypelagic boundary (m/b) at 2 km and defined them as F_m/bC_org, F_m/bC_inorg, and F_m/bSi_bio. Using this global data set, we investigated (1) the geographic contrasts of POC export at m/b and (2) the supply rate of ∑CO₂ to the world mesopelagic water column. F_m/bC_org varies from 25 (Pacific Warm Pool) to 605 (divergent Arabian Sea) mmolC m⁻² yr⁻¹; F_m/bC_inorg varies from >8 (high latitude Polar Oceans) or 15 (Pacific Warm Pool) to 459 (divergent Arabian Sea) mmolC m⁻² yr⁻¹; and F_m/bSi_bio, the most spatially/temporally variable flux, ranges from 6 (North Atlantic Drift) to 1118 (Pacific Subarctic Gyre) mmolSi m⁻² yr⁻¹. The oceanic region exhibiting the highest POC flux over a significantly large region is the area of the North Pacific Boreal Gyres where the average F_m/bC_org = 213, F_m/bC_inorg = 126, and F_m/bSi_bio = 578 mmol m⁻² yr⁻¹. F_m/bC_org and F_m/bC_inorg are particularly high in large upwelling margins, including the divergent Arabian Sea and off Cape Verde. One of the data sets showing the lowest flux over a significant region/basin is F_m/bC_org = 39, F_m/bC_inorg = 69, and F_m/bSi_bio = 22 mmol m⁻² yr⁻¹ in the North Pacific subtropical/tropical gyres; Pan-Atlantic average fluxes are similar except F_m/bSi_bio fluxes are even lower. Where C_org/C_inorg and Si_bio/C_inorg are <1 defines the “Carbonate Ocean”, and where these ratios are ?1 defines the “Silica Ocean”. The Carbonate Ocean occupies about 80% of the present world pelagic ocean between the two major oceanographic fronts, the North Pacific Polar Front and the Antarctic Polar Front, and the Silica Ocean is found on the polar sides of these fronts. The total global annual fluxes of F_m/bC_org, F_m/bC_inorg, and F_m/bSi_bio at m/b calculated by parameterizations of the export flux data from 134 stations are surprisingly similar; 36.2, 33.8, and 34.6 teramol yr⁻¹ (120, 112, and 114 mmol m⁻² yr⁻¹), respectively, resulting in a near uniform binary ratio between the above three elements of about one. The global ternary % ratios estimated from 152 TS-trap samples of the three elements are 35:32:33. From our global F_m/bC_org and a published model estimate of the global export production, we estimate the regeneration rate of CO₂ through the mesopelagic zone by the biological pump is 441 teramolC yr⁻¹. Based on our global F_m/bC_inorg and recently estimated global primary production of PIC, 36-86 teramolC yr⁻¹ of PIC is assumed to be dissolved within the upper 2 km of the water column.  相似文献   

Yield and cyclic behaviour of a strain space multiple mechanism model for granular materials     

Susumu Iai  Osamu Ozutsumi 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》2005,29(4):417-442

  相似文献   

Degree of impactor fragmentation under collision with a regolith surface—Laboratory impact experiments of rock projectiles     

Hiroki Nagaoka  Susumu Takasawa  Akiko M. Nakamura  Kazuyoshi Sangen 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2014,49(1):69-79

Some meteorites consist of a mix of components of various parent bodies that were presumably brought together by past collisions. Impact experiments have been performed to investigate the degree of target fragmentation during such collisions. However, much less attention has been paid to the fate of the impactors. Here, we report the results of our study of the empirical relationship between the degree of projectile fragmentation and the impact conditions. Millimeter‐sized pyrophyllite and basalt projectiles were impacted onto regolith‐like sand targets and an aluminum target at velocities of up to 960 m s^?1. Experiments using millimeter‐sized pyrophyllite blocks as targets were also conducted to fill the gap between this study and the previous studies of centimeter‐sized rock targets. The catastrophic disruption threshold for a projectile is defined as the energy density at which the mass of the largest fragment is the half of the original mass. The thresholds with the sand target were 4.5 ± 1.1 × 10⁴ and 9.0 ± 1.9 × 10⁴ J kg^?1, for pyrophyllite and basalt projectiles, respectively. These values are two orders of magnitude larger than the threshold for impacts between pyrophyllite projectiles onto aluminum targets, but are qualitatively consistent with the fact that the compressive and tensile strengths of basalt are larger than those of pyrophyllite. The threshold for pyrophyllite projectiles and the aluminum target agrees with the threshold for aluminum projectiles and pyrophyllite targets within the margin of error. Consistent with a previous result, the threshold depended on the size of the rocks with a power of approximately ?0.4 (Housen and Holsapple 1999). Destruction of rock projectiles occurred when the peak pressure was about ten times the tensile strength of the rocks.  相似文献