Methane-induced dolomite “chimneys” on the Kuroshima Knoll, Ryukyu islands, Japan |
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| Authors: | Rika Takeuchi Ryo Matsumoto Shigenori Ogihara Hideaki Machiyama |
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| Institution: | aDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan;bDeep Sea Research Department, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The Kuroshima Knoll is about 26 km south of Ishigaki Island in the southern part of the Ryukyu Arc. The area is considered to be the source area of “The 1771 Yaeyama Earthquake Tsunami”, which was due to the submarine landslide caused by an earthquake. It has been cleared from some investigations using “Dolphin 3K” and “Shinkai 2000” that there are large-scale dead Calyptogena colonies, many gravels of fallen dolomite chimneys and carbonates on the top of the Knoll Matsumoto, T., Uechi, C., Kimura, M., 1997; Machiyama, H., Matsumoto, T., Matsumoto, R., Hattori, M., Okano, M., Iwase, R., Tomaru, H., 2001b.]. Carbonates of Kuroshima Knoll have various shapes and macroscopic textures. These have been classified into 4 types; shell crust (pavement), chimney, burrow, and nodule. It is clear that all chimney and burrow carbonates are composed of dolomite, while shell curst and nodule are composed of calcite, sometimes both calcite and dolomite. These carbonates are considered to have been formed by cold seep, because they are characterized by the light carbon isotopic ratio (semi-biogenic) and the heavy oxygen isotopic ratio. This suggests that methane hydrate layers develop under this survey area and the water that has the heavy oxygen and the light carbon isotopic ratio is derived from the dissociation of methane hydrate. |
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| Keywords: | Methane hydrate Cold seep Carbonate Dolomite chimney |
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