K–Ar ages of the Ohmine Granitic Rocks, south-west Japan     

Tomoaki Sumii  Hironao Shinjoe 《Island Arc》2003,12(4):335-347

Abstract The Ohmine Granitic Rocks are a series of granitic rocks that are distributed in a chain stretching along the central axis of the Kii Peninsula. Their precise ages have not been determined, although precise ages have been reported for other geological units of the early to middle Miocene distributed over the peninsula. In this study, biotite K–Ar ages were obtained for the six major granitic plutons of the Ohmine Granitic Rocks: Dorogawa, Shirakura, Kose, Asahi, Tenguyama and Shiratani. Most are aged from 14.8 to 14.6 Ma. Although one pluton is older (15.4 ± 0.2 Ma) and two are younger (14.0 ± 0.2 Ma and 13.4 ± 0.1 Ma), these ages are excluded from the discussion of the mutual correlation among the plutons because some ambiguities exist in their ages. The age of the southernmost unit, the Katago–Mukuro Dykes, was not determined because of its intense alteration, but stratigraphic constraints suggest that it is younger than 16.1 Ma. The majority of the Ohmine Granitic Rocks concentrate within a narrow age window of approximately 14.8–14.6 Ma, although their geochemical/petrographical characteristics suggest that they were generated by multiple magma batches. The results of this study also reveal the simultaneous occurrence of the major activities of the Ohmine Granitic Rocks and the gigantic felsic igneous activities in the Kii Peninsula, such as the Kumano Acidic Rocks and the Muro Pyroclastic Flow Deposit.  相似文献   

Closed-system geochemical recycling of crustal materials in alpine-type peridotite     

Tomoaki Morishita  Shoji Arai  David H. Green 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2003,67(2):303-310

We examined aluminous mafic rock (with or without corundum or sapphirine) alternating with peridotite from the Ronda peridotite massif, southern Spain. On the basis of petrographic characteristics, these mafic rocks show a decompression history from high pressure (P > 1.5 GPa), but on the basis of their geochemical characteristics, they are crystal accumulates of plagioclase, clinopyroxene, and olivine formed within the lower crust (P < 1 GPa). A complex evolution history, including higher-pressure recrystallization after initial formation as cumulate gabbros at lower-pressure conditions, is proposed. The aluminous mafic rocks and their peridotite hosts are inferred to be recycled crustal materials now observed as centimeter-scale layered components in alpine-type peridotite. The rocks retained their original cumulate compositions; that is, their compositions were not affected by melting and metasomatic modifications during subduction, intense deformation within the upper mantle, and upwelling to the surface.  相似文献   

New age constraints on counter-clockwise rotation of NE Japan     

Ayumi K. Baba  Takaaki Matsuda  Tetsumaru Itaya  Yutaka Wada  Noriyuki Hori  Masahiko Yokoyama  Nobuaki Eto  Rieko Kamei  Haider Zaman  Tesfaye Kidane  Yo-Ichiro Otofuji 《Geophysical Journal International》2007,171(3):1325-1341

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Inversion of GPS velocity and seismicity data to yield changes in stress in the Japanese Islands     

Takeshi Iinuma  Teruyuki Kato  Muneo Hori 《Geophysical Journal International》2005,160(2):417-434

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Seismic wave conversion near the upper boundary of the Pacific plate beneath the Kanto district, Japan   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Shiro Ohmi  & Sadaki Hori 《Geophysical Journal International》2000,141(1):136-148

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The detectability of shallow slow earthquakes by the Dense Oceanfloor Network system for Earthquakes and Tsunamis (DONET) in Tonankai district,Japan     

Keisuke Ariyoshi  Ryoko Nakata  Toru Matsuzawa  Ryota Hino  Takane Hori  Akira Hasegawa  Yoshiyuki Kaneda 《Marine Geophysical Researches》2014,35(3):295-310

In order to understand the characteristics of shallow very low-frequency (VLF) events as revealed by recent ocean-floor observation studies, we perform a trial simulation of earthquake cycles in the Tonankai district by taking the characteristics of the 1944 Tonankai earthquake and assuming that slow earthquakes occur on numerous small asperities. Our simulation results show that the increase of moment release rate of shallower VLF events in the pre-seismic stage of a megathrust earthquake is higher than that of deeper VLF events. This increase may make leveling change due to VLF swarms detectable at Dense Oceanfloor Network system for Earthquakes and Tsunamis (DONET). We also introduce the time series of hydraulic pressure data at DONET, comparing with the leveling change expected from our numerical simulation. Since leveling change due to shallower VLF swarms is so local as to be incoherent, removal of the moving-averaged data from the data stacked by four nearby observation points in the same node may be useful to detect the short-term local leveling change.  相似文献   

On the divergence of the ionospheric electric field around the westward travelling surge     

Naoko Hori  Takashi Yamamoto 《Planetary and Space Science》1987,35(12):1489-1500

The pattern of the ionospheric electric field around the westward travelling surge (WTS) is theoretically studied. This is obtained by solving the current continuity equation at the ionospheric altitude for temporal and spatial development of the field-aligned current density modelled as the WTS phenomenon. The results show that the divergence of the ionospheric electric field is significantly changed depending on the dawn-to-dusk convection electric field E₀ because of non-uniformity in the ionospheric conductivity: the ionospheric electric field diverges in the upward current region (around the head of the WTS) when a westward electric field E₀ of 10 mV m⁻¹ is uniformly applied. On the other hand, the ionospheric electric field converges without E₀. From the observational inference that the ionospheric electric field converges around the head of the WTS, it is suggested that the WTS phenomenon may not be accounted for by the discharging process in the presence of the enhanced dawn-to-dusk convection electric field and non-uniform conductivity as was studied by previous authors.  相似文献   

Petrogenesis of ultramafic rocks and olivine-rich troctolites from the East Taiwan Ophiolite in the Lichi mélange     

Morishita  Tomoaki  Ghosh  Biswajit  Soda  Yusuke  Mizukami  Tomoyuki  Tani  Ken-ichiro  Ishizuka  Osamu  Tamura  Akihiro  Komaru  Chihiro  Aari  Shoji  Yang  Hsiao-Chin  Chen  Wen-Shan 《Mineralogy and Petrology》2018,112(4):521-534

Mineralogy and Petrology - We examine ultramafic and olivine-rich troctolite blocks of the East Taiwan Ophiolite (ETO) in the Lichi Mélange. Although ultramafic rocks are extensively...  相似文献   

Geochemistry of spinel-hosted amphibole inclusions in abyssal peridotite: insight into secondary melt formation in melt–peridotite reaction     

Akihiro?TamuraEmail author  Tomoaki?Morishita  Satoko?Ishimaru  Shoji?Arai 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2014,167(3):974

Spinel-hosted hydrous silicate mineral inclusions are often observed in dunite and troctolite as well as chromitite. Their origin has been expected as products associated with melt–peridotite reaction, based on the host rock origin. However, the systematics in mineralogical and geochemical features are not yet investigated totally. In this study, we report geochemical variations of the spinel-hosted pargasite inclusions in reacted harzburgite and olivine-rich troctolite collected from Atlantis Massif, an oceanic core complex, in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The studied samples are a good example to examine geochemical variations in the inclusions because the origin and geological background of the host rocks have been well constrained, such as the reaction between MORB melt and depleted residual harzburgite beneath the mid-ocean ridge spreading center. The trace-element compositions of the pargasite inclusions are characterized by not only high abundance of incompatible elements but also the LREE and HFSE enrichments. Distinctive trace-element partitioning between the pargasite inclusion and the host-rock clinopyroxene supports that the secondary melt instantaneously formed by the reaction is trapped in spinel and produces inclusion minerals. While the pargasite geochemical features can be interpreted by modal change reaction of residual harzburgite, such as combination of orthopyroxene decomposition and olivine precipitation, degree of the LREE enrichment as well as variation of HREE abundance is controlled by melt/rock ratio in the reaction. The spinel-hosted hydrous inclusion could be embedded evidence indicating melt–peridotite reaction even if reaction signatures in the host rock were hidden by other consequent reactions.  相似文献   

Analysis of dust events in 2008 and 2009 using the lidar network, surface observations and the CFORS model     

Nobuo Sugimoto  Yukari Hara  Atsushi Shimizu  Tomoaki Nishizawa  Ichiro Matsui  Masataka Nishikawa 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences》2013,49(1):27-39

The Asian dust events in 2008 (May 24–June 4 in 2008) and in 2009 (March 12–25, October 13–26, and December 15–28 in 2009) were analyzed with the lidar network observations, surface observations in China, Korea, Japan, and Mongolia, and with the chemical transport model CFORS. Transport of Asian dust and mixing of dust with air pollution aerosols were studied. The event of May 24 to June 4 in 2008 was a significant event unusually late in the spring dust season. The dust event of March 12–25, 2009 was an interesting example of elevated dust layer, and transport of dust from the elevated dust layer to the ground by the boundary layer activity was observed with the lidars and surface observations in Japan. The concentration of air pollution aerosols was relatively high during the dust event, and the results suggest that vertical structure as well as transport path is important for the mixing of dust and air pollution aerosols. The dust events in October and December 2009 were examples of dust events in autumn and winter. The online mode CFORS reproduced the observation data generally well, except for the event of May 24 to June 4 in 2008. The results of the fourdimensional variational assimilation of the lidar network data reproduced the dust concentration in Korea and Japan reasonably in that event.  相似文献