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Tectonic Evolution of the Paleogene System in the Eastern Margin of East China Region

Research Project

Project/Area Number 06640586
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Geology
Research InstitutionKYUSHU UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

SAKAI Takashi  KYUSHU UNIVERSITY,Fac.of Science, Earth and Planet.Sci., Research Associate, 理学部, 助手 (70128023)

Project Period (FY) 1994 – 1995
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1995)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
KeywordsEast China / Paleogene basin / Sedimentary Province / Tectonics / Sedimentation / Sequence boundary / Subduction complex / Trench erosion / 前弧-海溝系 / オ-ラコジン / 束槽境界 / 海水準変動 / 東シナ堆積盆 / 古第三紀 / 背弧海盆 / 前弧海盆 / フィリピン海プレート / シークェンス層序 / 大陸緑辺
Research Abstract

The nature and evolution of the Paleogene basins on land and under the sea in the eastern margin of East Asia continent were examined to elucidate their origins, tectonic settings and sedimentary sequences. Those basins are grouped into three main provinces ; the West Japan Sea (WJSP), Shelf (SP) and Forearc-Trench Provinces (FTP), among which the distribution and the sedimentological and structural features are very different with one another. The WJSP occupies the West Honshu and North Kyushu and shows a half-graven structure trending in a northwestern direction. It consists of the Middle Eocene to Early Oligocene non-marine sequence with coal and volcanogenic beds frequently in the lower, and the Upper Oligocene shallow-marine sequence in the upper, which are bounded by a ravinement surface. It might be comparable to an aulacogen prior the serious opening of the Japan Sea. The SP and the FTP are correspond to the forearc shelf and the deep forearc-trench basins, respectively. The SP … More extends widely from the Yaeyama Islands and west of Diaoyudao Ridge to West Kyushu, and the FTP is traceable from Kyushu to the south Ryukyu. The SP is made up of a non-and shallow-marine successions, and is characterized by the regional folds and normal faults that are accompanied with strike-ship faulting, structurally. The FTP is defined well as the subduction complex and is cmposed of deep-marine fan sediments at deep-marine terrace and trench. Three ravinement surfaces and two sequence boundaries were defined. Among them the ravinment surface between the Eocene and the Oligocene, and the type1 sequence boundary in the mid-Oligocene (30Ma) shows marked changes of paleodepth, that seems to be correlative to the eustatic curve (Haq et al., 1988). The analyzes of sedimentary facies, cycles and paleocurrent suggest that the growing of the subduction complexes were attributed to the development of a delta-fed fan system. The oblique-slip margin with trench erosion on the south and the orthogonal convergent margin on the north were assumed for the subduction process of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the East Asia continent during Eocene. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 1995 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1994 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All Other

All Publications (9 results)

  • [Publications] 岡本和夫: "下関市彦島・西山町地域の漸新世芦屋層群の堆積相と貝類化石" 瑞浪市化石博物館研報. 22. 19-50 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 坂井 卓: "西九州西彼杵地域の古第三系の堆積層序とシークェンス境界" 堆積学研究. 44(発表予定). (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 坂井 卓: "渡半島の堆積岩類 津屋崎町史(自然科学)" 津屋崎町(印刷中), (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Okamoto, K: "Sedimentary facies and fossil molluscs of the Oligocene Ashiya Group in the Hikoshima Takenokojima and Nishiyama Area, Shimonsoseki City, Southwest Japan" Bull.Mizunami Fossil Mus.no.22. 19-50 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sakai, T.: "Sedsimentary roccks in the Watari Peninsula., in History of Tuyazaki-cyo.(Sciences)" Ysuyazaki-cyo. (in press). (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sakai, T.: "Sedimentar y sequence and sequence boundaries of the Paleogene in the Nishizonogi area, West Kyushu." Sedimet.Soc.Japan. (in preparation).

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 岡本和夫: "下関市彦島・西山町地域の漸新世芦屋層群の堆積相と貝類化石" 瑞浪市化石博物館研報. 22. 19-50 (1996)

    • Related Report
      1995 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 坂井卓: "渡半島の堆積岩類.津屋崎町史(自然科学)" 津屋崎町(印刷中),

    • Related Report
      1995 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 坂井,卓: "中生代後期の東アジアのテクトニクスと堆積盆の形成" 月刊地球. 16. 269-276 (1994)

    • Related Report
      1994 Annual Research Report

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