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Crustal structure and tectonics of the Hidaka Collision Zone, Hokkaido (Japan), revealed by vibroseis seismic reflection and gravity surveys |
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| Authors: | Kazunori Arita Takashi Ikawa Tanio Ito Akihiko Yamamoto Matsuhiko Saito Yasunori Nishida Hideyuki Satoh Gaku Kimura Teruo Watanabe Takeshi Ikawa and Toru Kuroda |
| Institution: | aDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060, Japan bDepartment of Earth Sciences, Chiba University, Inage-ku, Chiba 263, Japan cResearch Center for Earthquake Prediction, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060, Japan dDepartment of Earth Sciences, CIAS, University of Osaka Prefecture, Sakai-shi, Osaka 593, Japan eJapex Geoscience Institute Inc., Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140, Japan |
| Abstract: | This study is the first integrated geological and geophysical investigation of the Hidaka Collision Zone in southern Central Hokkaido, Japan, which shows complex collision tectonics with a westward vergence. The Hidaka Collision Zone consists of the Idon'nappu Belt (IB), the Poroshiri Ophiolite Belt (POB) and the Hidaka Metamorphic Belt (HMB) with the Hidaka Belt from west to east. The POB (metamorphosed ophiolites) is overthrust by the HMB (steeply eastward-dipping palaeo-arc crust) along the Hidaka Main Thrust (HMT), and in turn, thrusts over the Idon'nappu Belt (melanges) along the Hidaka Western Thrust (HWT). Seismic reflection and gravity surveys along a 20-km-long traverse across the southern Hidaka Mountains revealed hitherto unknown crustal structures of the collision zone such as listric thrusts, back thrusts, frontal thrust-and-fold structures, and duplex structures. The main findings are as follows. (1) The HMT, which dips steeply at the surface, is a listric fault dipping gently at a depth of  7 km beneath the eastern end of the HMB, and cutting across the lithological boundaries and schistosity of the Hidaka metamorphic rocks. (2) A second reflector is detected 1 km below the HMT reflector. The intervening part between these two reflectors is inferred to be the POB, which is only little exposed at the surface. This inference is supported by the high positive Bouguer anomalies along the Hidaka Mountains. (3) The shallow portion of the IB at the front of the collision zone has a number of NNE-dipping reflectors, indicative of imbricated fold-and-thrust structures. (4) Subhorizontal reflectors at a depth of 14 km are recognized intermittently at both sides of the seismic profile. These reflectors may correspond to the velocity boundary (5.9–6.6 km/s) previously obtained from seismic refraction profiling in the northern Hidaka Mountains. (5) These crustal structures as well as the back thrust found in the eastern end of the traverse represent characteristics of collisional tectonics resulting from the two collisional events since the Early Tertiary. |
| Keywords: | crustal structure Hidaka Collision Zone seismic reflection gravity survey collision tectonics Hokkaido |
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