The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan
Online ISSN : 1349-9963
Print ISSN : 0016-7630
ISSN-L : 0016-7630
Volume 114, Issue 10
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  • an example of the western part of the Atotsugawa Fault, Hida City, Gifu Prefecture of Japan
    Masakazu Niwa, Koji Shimada, Hideki Kurosawa, Atsushi Miwa
    2008 Volume 114 Issue 10 Pages 495-515
    Published: October 15, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: May 30, 2009
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    Crush zone structures are heterogeneous due to occurrence of fault steps. This paper provides a geological description of crush zones in the western part of the active Atotsugawa Fault, Hida City, Gifu Prefecture of Japan, to understand the crush zone structure in a compressional step of a strike-slip fault. By means of aerial photograph interpretation and regional distribution of crush zones, we recognize that a compressional step occurs in the Sangawara area, whereas in the Itani area a long strand of the Atotsugawa Fault with ENE−WSW trend is extended. Detailed geological observation suggests that shear planes with NNE−SSW and NW−SE strikes, oblique to the trend of the Ato-tsugawa Fault at high angles, are characteristically developed in the Sangawara area, whereas shear planes with ENE−WSW strike dominate in the Itani area. The shear planes with NNE−SSW and NW−SE strikes in the Sangawara area can be a part of the composite planar fabric such as R2 surfaces which are dominantly developed within compressional steps. Based on the clay mineral composition including smectite and kaolinite, high density of sealed microcracks, and the K-Ar ages of fault gouge and andesite dike, fault breccia and gouge in the Sangawara area are mainly formed by fracturing at a shallow depth (under c.a. 100°C) after the dike intrusion during Oligocene to early Miocene time.
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  • −Based on analyses of molluscan fauna from the Mita Formation in Yatsuo-machi of Toyama City−
    Kazutaka Amano, Masui Hamuro, Tokiyuki Sato
    2008 Volume 114 Issue 10 Pages 516-531
    Published: October 15, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: May 30, 2009
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    Molluscan fauna from the Mita Formation in Toyama Prefecture was examined for elucidating the timing and pass ways of the warm-current influx to the Japan Sea in the middle Pliocene. The Mita Formation consists of fine- to medium-grained sandstone with three tuff beds (OT3, MT1 and MT2). The horizons between OT3 (about 4 Ma) and MT2 (2.2-2.3 Ma) yielding many molluscan fossils can be assigned to the lower to middle part of NN16 nannofossil zone. The fauna includes many characteristic species of the Plio-Pleistocene Omma-Manganji fauna as well as some Miocene relict species. Besides 51 cold-water species, 24 warm-water species were found from the every stratigraphic horizon above OT3 and to that just above MT2. The Mita fauna also includes some common species with the Plio-Pleistocene warm-water Kakegawa fauna in the southwestern Pacific side of Japan. Such species composition might be affected by the shallow warmer current than today flowing over the cold-water mass. Judging from every horizons yielding the warm-current species, the warm current always flowed since about 4 Ma to 2.2Ma. Moreover, because of more numerous common warm-water species between the Mita and Kuwae faunas than the Kuwae and the northern Tentokuji ones, and of their biogeographical setting, it can be inferred that the warm current entered through around the Tsushima Strait, not through the Tsugaru Strait.
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  • Gen-ya Hikichi, Atsushi Yamaji
    2008 Volume 114 Issue 10 Pages 540-545
    Published: October 15, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: May 30, 2009
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    Some 160 mesoscale faults were observed in Plio-Pleistocene strata to understand the state of stress associated with the formation of vein-type ores at∼1.9 Ma in the Nagano area, Japan, where NE−SW trending strike-slip and oblique normal faults were found to be abundant; but faults with other orientations and senses were also common. The strike-slip faults showed sinistral and dextral senses, suggesting that this area experienced multiple stresses since the late Pliocene. Five datasets were chosen from the Nagano Formation and Chayagatake Andesite, the depositional ages of which cover the late Pliocene to earliest Pleistocene. Each dataset was inverted to estimate paleostresses. The two datasets from the lower and middle Nagano Formation yielded the strike-slip faulting regime of stress with NNE−SSW and WNW−ESE trending σ1 and σ3 axes, respectively, and with intermediate stress ratios. The three datasets from the upper horizon yielded the opposite stress, suggesting that the state of stress changed sometime around 2 Ma. The veins around the Yamagano Mine have E−W trends, indicating a largely N−S trending σ3 at the time of vein formation, consistent with the stress determined from the upper horizon. The ores were deposited presumably under the strike-slip faulting regime of stress.
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