Zircon U–Pb sensitive high mass-resolution ion microprobe dating of granitoids in the Ryoke metamorphic belt, Kinki District, Southwest Japan     

Teruo Watanabe  Trevor Ireland  Yoshiaki Tainosho and  Yutaka Nakai 《Island Arc》2000,9(1):55-63

Abstract Zircon U–Pb sensitive high mass-resolution ion microprobe dating was carried out on three types of granitic rock (gneissose biotite granodiorite, biotite granite and two-mica granite) from the Cretaceous Ryoke belt of the Kinki district, Southwest Japan. The results give the ages of granitic magmatism in the Shigi-san area of between 87 and 78 Ma and suggest extensive melting of the Cretaceous Ryoke granitic crust to form the two-mica granite, probably at ca 80 Ma. Discrimination into older and younger granites based on development of gneissosity does not appear to represent the sequence of magma generation, although there is some scope in the interpretation of the zircon U–Pb data that would allow all three granites to form at 83 Ma. Compilation of chemical Th-U-total Pb isochron dating method ages, whole rock Rb–Sr isotope ages and U–Pb isotope ages indicates that most Ryoke plutonism occurred from ca 70 Ma to ca 100 Ma. Younger (85 Ma–70 Ma) plutonism with the formation of two-mica granite occurred only in the eastern sector of the Ryoke belt, including the Kinki District.  相似文献   

A fluorescent approach to the identification of grout injected into fissures and pore spaces   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

Youqing Chen  Takashi Nishiyama  Michinao Terada  Yoshiaki Iwamoto 《Engineering Geology》2000,56(3-4):395-401

A new fluorescent approach was developed to visualize grouting processes. The evaluation of the effect of grouting is carried out by methods based mainly on physical measurements such as permeability and porosity characteristics. However, these estimates do not necessarily correlate with practical grouting data. In this paper, the distributions of various grout mixtures containing fluorescent substances were clearly visualized under ultraviolet light, using a borehole television system or a microscope. Since this approach enabled direct observation of grout distribution, it is considered that this approach is useful for analysis of grouting mechanisms, designing grout curtains, etc.  相似文献   

Photometric properties of the Arp 220 super star clusters     

Yasuhiro Shioya  Yoshiaki Taniguchi  Neil Trentham 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,321(1):11-17

We investigate the photometric properties of six super stellar clusters (SSCs) seen in both the optical and near-infrared Hubble Space Telescope images of the local ultraluminous starburst galaxy Arp 220. Three of the SSCs are located in the central 0.5-kpc region. The remaining three are in the circumnuclear region between 0.5 and 2.5 kpc from the centre. Comparing the observed spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of the SSCs with the Starburst99 models of Leitherer et al., we confirm that all three nuclear SSCs are heavily obscured     Considering the results from this comparison in conjunction with measurements of the near-infrared CO absorption index and of millimetre CO linewidths and luminosities, we estimate the ages of the nuclear SSCs to be 10⁷–10⁸ yr. The bolometric luminosity of the three nuclear SSCs is at most one-fifth of the total bolometric luminosity of Arp 220. On the other hand, the circumnuclear SSCs have little internal extinction     These contribute negligibly to the total bolometric luminosity.  相似文献   

Synthetic Silica Glass for Trace Aluminium Determination in Quartz by Electron Microprobe     

Naoya Miyoshi  Hisao Satoh  Yoshiaki Yamaguchi  Harue Masuda 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》2003,27(1):91-98

Five synthetic silica glasses have been prepared for microprobe determination of trace aluminium in quartz. The glasses were synthesized from tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) into which between 0 and 1431 μg g-¹ aluminium had been doped. The aluminium concentrations of the glasses were independently determined by ICP-AES analysis. X-ray wavelength shift in the Al Kα peak was minimised relative to unknown quartz samples when these glasses were used for calibration. A set of these five glasses yielded a linear calibration line, and are available for trace aluminium analysis of quartz in routine microprobe systems.  相似文献   

Internal structures and U–Pb ages of zircons from a tuff layer in the Meishucunian formation, Yunnan Province, South China     

Yusuke Sawaki  Manabu Nishizawa  Takeshi Suo  Tsuyoshi Komiya  Takafumi Hirata  Naoto Takahata  Yuji Sano  Jian Han  Yoshiaki Kon  Shigenori Maruyama 《Gondwana Research》2008,14(1-2):148

The Precambrian/Cambrian (PC/C) boundary is one of the most important intervals for the evolution of life, represented by prominent biological evolution from the first appearance of soft-bodied animals from the late Neoproterozoic to the sudden diversification of animals with mineralized skeletons in the Cambrian. In South China several areas contain many fossils and are well exposed, suitable for the investigation of PC/C boundary. However, geochronological relationships are still poorly known because of lack of combined detailed investigations of internal structures of zircons and in-situ U–Pb dating.We focus on the internal structure of zircons from a tuff layer within Bed 5 in the Meishucun section on which we undertook cathodoluminescence (CL) imaging and in-situ U–Pb dating with LA-ICP-MS and nano-SIMS. Over 600 zircons from the tuff layer were classified into three types based on their CL images: oscillatory rims, inherited cores and dull structures. U–Pb dating of the internal structure of the zircons by LA-ICP-MS clearly shows a distinct unimodal age population dependent on the structure: 531 ± 17 Ma for the oscillatory rims and 515 Ma for the dull structures. The clear oscillatory zonation, the prismatic morphology, and their occurrence indicate that the oscillatory rims were formed from felsic magmatism, and that the U–Pb nano-SIMS age of 536.5 ± 2.5 Ma records the depositional age of the tuff. Our results indicate that the PC/C boundary is situated below Bed 5, and therefore the bottom of Zone 1 (Marker A) is more appropriate for the PC/C boundary than is the top of Zone 1 (Marker B). The age of a positive anomaly (P2) in the early Cambrian is estimated to be ca. 536 Ma.  相似文献   

On the wave dependence of sea-surface wind stress     

Naoto Ebuchi  Yoshiaki Toba  Hiroshi Kawamura 《Journal of Oceanography》1990,46(4):177-183

Analysis is made of wind and wave data, which were obtained during the passage of Typhoon 8013 at an Ocean Data Buoy Station south of Honshu operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency, in order to investigate the wave dependence of sea-surface roughness parameter in the situation where wind waves are dominant with less significant swells. The data fit better the wave-dependent expression of the wind stress,z _{0 p}/u*=, than to Charnock's formula,gz ₀/u*²=, wherez ₀ is the roughness length, _p the angular frequency of the spectral peak of wind waves,u* the friction velocity of air,g the acceleration of gravity, and are non-dimensional constants. The results are very similar to those of our previous study using data from an oil producing platform in the Bass Strait, Australia, although the type of observation system and the synoptic situation of the winds and wind waves were totally different.  相似文献   

Dependence of Whitecap Coverage on Wind and Wind-Wave Properties   总被引：13，自引：0，他引：13  

Dongliang Zhao  Yoshiaki Toba 《Journal of Oceanography》2001,57(5):603-616

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Seasonal fluctuations of cell density of cyanobacteria and other picophytoplankton in Iwanai Bay,Hokkaido, Japan   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Akira Miyazono  Tsuneo Odate  Yoshiaki Maita 《Journal of Oceanography》1992,48(3):257-266

In Iwanai Bay, which is located on the Japan Sea coast in Hokkaido, seasonal fluctuations in cell densities of phycoerythrin-dominant cyanobacteria and chlorophyll-dominant, other picophytoplankton were examined. Cell densities of cyanobacteria and other picophytoplankton ranged from 1.4×10⁵ to 1.9×10⁸ and from 4.0×10⁴ to 4.3×10⁶ cells 1^–1, respectively. The cell densities of both groups tended to increase after spring diatom bloom with remarkable fluctuations from June to August. This tendency was caused by the vertical distributions of both groups. The maximum density layer shifted from 0–20 m depth in April–June to 20–50 m depth in August–October. Cyanobacteria were dominant in picophytoplankton community which accounted for 73–99% of the total cell density during the whole year. Present results show that the picophytoplankton community in Iwanai Bay was influenced by a single water mass system (Tsushima Warm Current) during the whole year.This is contribution No. 254 from the Research Institute of North Pacific Fisheries, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University.  相似文献   

Statistical characteristics of individual waves in laboratory wind waves     

Masayuki Tokuda  Yoshiaki Toba 《Journal of Oceanography》1982,38(1):8-14

On the basis of data on the statistical characteristics of individual waves in laboratory wind waves reported in part I of this series, a self-consistent similarity regime is found to exist among properties of the individual waves, such as the nondimensional frequency, the wave number, the phase speed, and the steepness. Also, it is shown that forms of past empirical formulas for the development of the peak wave can be derived starting from the 3/2-power law, as an extension of the persent laboratory experimental data. In the derivation, only values of the coefficient of the 3/2-power law, and the fraction of momentum transferred from the wind retained by the wind waves, remain on an empirical basis.  相似文献   

Sea-surface roughness length fluctuating in concert with wind and waves   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Yoshiaki Toba  Naoto Ebuchi 《Journal of Oceanography》1991,47(3):63-79

When the nondimensional aerodynamic roughness parameter for the sea surface (gz ₀/u _* ²,g being the acceleration of gravity,u _* the air friction velocity) is plotted as a function of the wave age, the data points in the diagram are distributed mostly in a triangle area between the Charnock formula and the Toba-Koga formula; the nondimensional roughness perameter is not expressed as a unique function of the wave age, but rather there seem to be multiple regimes. In order to investigate the cause of the data point scattering, a reanalysis was made of the 4.5-hour time series of the wind profile and wind-wave statistics which were obtained at an oceanographic tower station under the conditions of a winter monsoon wind having slightly fluctuating speed and steadily growing wind waves.It is concluded that the averaged variation ofz ₀ is given by the Toba-Koga formula with a constant of value 0.015. However, as a result of the wind fluctuation on the time scales ranging from several minutes to an hour, data points show a conspicuous fluctuation on the nondimensional roughness parameter-wave age diagram in the direction transverse to the averaged variation. The variation inz ₀ directly reflects the degree of over- or under-saturation in the high-frequency range of the wind-wave spectra. Physical interpretation of these variations is also presented.  相似文献