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1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Study on the thermal anomaly due to active faulting

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09640507
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 固体地球物理学
Research InstitutionKYOTO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

TAGAMI Takahiro  Graduate School of Science, KYOTO UNIVERSITY Associate Prof., 大学院・理学研究科, 助教授 (80202159)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) HASEBE Noriko  Kanazawa Univ., Department of Geology, Assistant Prof., 理学部, 助手 (60272944)
Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1999
KeywordsEarthguake / Nojima Fault / Thermal anomaly / Thermochronology / Fission track / Zircon
Research Abstract

To better understand the heat generation and transfer along earthquake fault, we measured zircon fission-track (FT) length data from Nojima fault, Awaji-shima Island, Japan, which was activated during the 1995 Kobe earthquake (Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake). Samples were collected from Cretaceous granitic rocks at depths using the Ogura 500 m borehole and Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ) borehole, as well as at outcrops nearby the boring sites. The Nojima fault plane was drilled at 389.4 m depth (along-core apparent depth) for Ogura and at about 625 m for GSJ. For Ogura samples, FT lengths in zircons from localities>60 m away from the fault plane as well as those from outcrops are characterized by the mean values of 〜10-11 μm and unimodal distributions with positive skewness, showing no signs of appreciable reduction of FT length. In contrast, those from nearby the fault at depths show significantly reduced mean of 〜7-8 μm and distributions having a peak around 6-7 μm with rather negative skewness. A similar trend was observed for GSJ samples, in which the peak around 6-7 μm is less dominant however. In conjunction with other geological constraints, these results are best interpreted by the recent thermal anomaly around the fault, which is attributable to the frictional heating of fault motion and/or heat transfer via fluids from the deep interior of the crust.

  • Research Products

    (8 results)

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All Publications (8 results)

  • [Publications] T.Tagami: "Cordilleran-type. orogeng and episodic growth of eontinents : insights from circam-Paeific continental margins"The Island Arc. 8. 206-217 (1999)

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  • [Publications] T.Tagami: "Thermal anomaly around Nojima fault as detected by the fission-track analysisi ot Ogura 500m borehole samples"The Island Arc. (in press). (2000)

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  • [Publications] M.Sudo: "K-Ar dating of the vlocanic rocks from the Macolod Corridoe in south westen Lazon , Philippines"Philippine J. Earth Sci.. (in press). (2000)

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  • [Publications] T.Tagami: "Thermal hisitoru analysis of the Nojima fault borehole samples by fission -track thermochrorology"USGS Open File Rep.. (in press). (2000)

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  • [Publications] Tagami, T. and Hasebe, N: "Cordilleran-type orogeny and episodic growth of continents : insights from circum-Pacific continental margins."The Island Arc. 8. 206-217 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Tagami, T., Hasebe, N., Kamohara, H. and Takemura, K: "Thermal anomaly around Nojima fault as detected by the fission-track analysis of Ogura 500M borehole samples."The Island Arc. (in press). (2000)

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  • [Publications] Sudo, M., Listanco, L. L., Ishikawa, N., Tagami, T., Kamata, H. and Tatsumi,Y: "K-Ar dating of the volcanic rocks from Macolod Corridor in southwestern Luzon, Philippines : toward understanding of the Quaternary volcanism and tectonics."Philippine J. Earth Sci. (in press). (2000)

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  • [Publications] Tagami, T., Murakami, M., Hasebe, N., Kamohara, H. and Takemura, K.: "Thermal history analysis of the Nojima fault borehole samples by fission-track thermochronology."USGS Open File Rep. (in press). (2000)

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Published: 2001-10-23  

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