Trace element concentrations in silicate spherules from oceanic sediments     

Hiroshi Nagasawa  Kazuo Yamakoshi  Tadashi Shimamura 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1979,43(2):267-272

The possible existence of meteoritic spherules was investigated among several silicate spherules separated from oceanic sediments and analyzed by means of INAA (instrumental neutron activation analysis).A 0.72 mg glassy spherule was found to have uniform enrichment of 4 ~ 5 for the refractory REE (rare earth elements) and Sc with substantial depletion of Ce relative to chondritic abundances. This implies that this spherule is meteoritic in origin and that the enrichment of refractory elements was established by high temperature heating in a high O/H environment, possibly at the time of entering the Earth's atmosphere.The other three analyzed spherules showed major and trace element abundances that are consistent with an origin in the oceanic environment.  相似文献   

Ridge collision and in situ greenstones in accretionary complexes: An example from the Late Cretaceous Ryukyu Islands and southwest Japan margin   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Kazuo  Kiminami  Sumio  Miyashita Kiyoshi  Kawabata 《Island Arc》1994,3(2):103-111

Abstract Mélange units containing greenstones are common throughout the Cretaceous-Miocene Shimanto Supergroup in the Ryukyu Is and southwest Japan. Most greenstones in the accretionary complex originated in oceanic spreading ridges and seamounts, and they formed far from the convergent margin. Some mélange-like units in the supergroup, however, contain greenstones that were extruded upon and intruded into unconsolidated fine-grained terrigenous clastic sediments. It is inferred that eruption of the in situ greenstones resulted from igneous activity in the trench area. Geochemical signatures indicate that the greenstone protoliths were similar to mafic lavas generated at spreading ridges. Fossil ages of the strata containing in situ greenstones become younger over a distance of 1300 km eastward from Amami-Oshima (Cenomanian-Turonian) in the Ryukyu Is to central Japan (Late Maestrichtian-earliest Paleocene), implying that a site of igneous activity in the trench area migrated eastward along the Ryukyu Is and southwest Japan margin. Plate reconstructions of the northwest Pacific Ocean suggest the presence of the Kula-Pacific ridge near Late Cretaceous to early Paleogene Japan. In this context, it is suggested that the greenstones formed in response to Kula-Pacific ridge-forearc collision.
Ancient ridge-forearc collisions are best recognized by the presence of mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB) extruded on sediments inferred to have accumulated in the trench area. Diachronous occurrences of the strata associated with these MORB in an orogenic belt are useful for documenting the ridge collision through time.  相似文献   

Magma mixing model for the genesis of middle crust in the Izu–Bonin–Mariana arc: evidence from plutonic rocks in the Mineoka-Setogawa ophiolitic mélange,central Japan     

Yuji Ichiyama  Hisatoshi Ito  Akihiro Tamura  Shoji Arai 《International Geology Review》2020,62(4):503-521

ABSTRACT

A Paleogene accretionary complex, the Mineoka–Setogawa belt is distributed adjacent to the northern portion of the collision zone between Honshu and Izu–Bonin–Mariana (IBM) arcs in central Japan, comprising a mélange of ophiolitic fragments of various sizes. The Eocene-Oligocene plutonic rocks in this belt (gabbro, diorite, and tonalite) have been interpreted as fragments brought from the deep crust beneath the IBM arc through tectonic collisions. The geochemical characteristics of the gabbro and associated basaltic dike are similar to those of the Eocene IBM tholeiitic basalt; thus, the gabbro was likely formed via the crystallization of the Eocene tholeiitic basaltic magmas, which was produced by the partial meltings of a depleted mantle wedge. A comparison with experimental results and geochemical modeling indicates that the tonalite was generated by 10–30% dehydration melting of the gabbro. Actually, Eocene–Oligocene felsic veins, which are coeval with the plutonic rocks, occur in the Mineoka–Setogawa gabbro. Plagioclase crystals in the diorite comprise Ca-rich and -poor parts in a single crystal. Their compositional characteristics are consistent with those of plagioclase in the gabbro and tonalite, respectively. The textures and chemical composition of plagioclase indicate that the diorite was formed by the mixing between mafic and silicic magmas. The whole-rock composition of the diorite also indicates the evidence for the mixing between basaltic magmas which were fractionated to variable degrees and homogeneous silicic magma. The mixing model proposed from the first direct observations of the IBM middle crust exposed on the Mineoka–Setogawa belt is applied to the genesis of the Eocene to present intermediate rocks in the IBM arc. If the continental crust were created at intra-oceanic arc settings such as the IBM arc, the magma mixing model would be one of the most likely mechanisms for the genesis of the continental crust.  相似文献   

Impact Of The PROCEEDINGS ON THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS: A COMPARISON OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION EXCHANGE AT THE 1967 AND 1969 ANNUAL MEETINGS*     

Carnot E. Nelson  Kazuo Tomica 《The Professional geographer》1970,22(4):221-226

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Search for Young Giant Planets with the Subaru 8-Meter Telescope: Instrument and Strategy     

Tamura  M.  Suto  H.  Itoh  Y.  CIAO Group 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1998,81(1):109-110

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Frequency-Dependent Attenuation of P and S Waves In the Kanto Area, Japan, Based On the Coda-Normalization Method   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Kazuo Yoshimoto  Haruo Sato  Masakazu Ohtake 《Geophysical Journal International》1993,114(1):165-174

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Spatiotemporal distribution of seismic activity in East Asia and its relation to regional stress field     

Jiren Xu  Zhixin Zhao  Kazuo Oike 《地震学报(英文版)》1992,5(2):263-269

Tectonic forces from the relative movements between plates are transmitted into the continental crust, and then they create the earthquake generating stress field there. The space-time distribution of the seismic activity including the small earthquakes in a region reflects the variation of the stress field in the region. According to this idea, the characteristics of the stress fields in the various regions of East Asia have been analyzed in detail in this paper based on a lot of solutions of focal mechanisms and data of seismic activity during the last 500 years. The results indicate that the tectonic forces from the subduction of the Pacific Ocean plate underneath the Eurasian plate control the stress field in the region from North China to the northern part of the North-South Seismic Belt. The variation of the regional stress field shown by the variation of seismic activity in some regions of Japan has also been discussed based on characteristics of variation of the seimicity of small earthquakes. Synchronous variations of seismicity in the past 100 years or so in West China and in the boundary region between the Indo-Australian and Eurasian plates implicate that there is the transmission of tectonic forces into West China through the collision between the Indo-Australian and Eurasian plates. The active seismic activity in the boundary region between the Indo-Australian and the Eurasian plates and in West China is continuing consistently. The Chinese version of this paper appeared in the Chinese edition ofActa Seismologica Sinica,13, 287–294, 1991.  相似文献   

More than just technology for landslide disaster mitigation—signatories to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020—no. 4     

Konagai  Kazuo 《Landslides》2021,18(6):2335-2340

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Compositional variations in spinel-hosted pargasite inclusions in the olivine-rich rock from the oceanic crust–mantle boundary zone     

Akihiro Tamura  Tomoaki Morishita  Satoko Ishimaru  Kaori Hara  Alessio Sanfilippo  Shoji Arai 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2016,171(5):39

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Peridotite xenoliths from the Shiribeshi Seamount,Japan Sea: insights into mantle processes in a back-arc basin     

Yuji Ichiyama  Tomoaki Morishita  Akihiro Tamura  Shoji Arai 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2016,171(10):86

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