Active Fault Research
Online ISSN : 2186-5337
Print ISSN : 0918-1024
ISSN-L : 0918-1024
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Faults and stratal deformation exposed on the active fault zone along the western margin of the Kitakami Lowland, Shimosekita area, northeast Japan :
subsurface fault geometry inferred from balanced cross-section analysis
Hideki KosakaRyo TateishiAtsushi MiwaYasuo IchikawaTakanobu KamatakiToshifumi Imaizumi
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2009 Volume 2009 Issue 30 Pages 37-46

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Abstract
We construct the subsurface fault structure using balanced cross section based on the observation of the stratal deformations around fault outcrops. These fault outcrops were found in the Shimosekita area on the active fault zone along the western margin of the Kitakami Lowland, northeast Japan. Pliocene-Pleistcene Mitusawagawa Formation thrusts over the terrace deposits beneath the small fault scarp on the lowland (F1 fault). Miocene to Pliocene strata thrust over Mitusawagawa Formation on the mountain front (F2 fault). Uplift width of the hanging wall of F1 fault was 30 meters. The hanging wall structure of F2 fault was kink fold with overturned forelimb. Our analysis with a balanced cross section suggests F1 fault with a detachment depth being 20 meters. On the basis of the comparison with the seismic reflection profile at the Ishidoriya area, we propose that a distance between the fault on the mountain front and the frontal fault on the terrace surface may be controlled by a depth to the detachment underneath.
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© 2009 Japanese Society for Active fault Studies & The Research Group for Active Faults of Japan
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