The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-Kenkyu)

Quaternary System in the Tokachi Plain, East Hokkaido (II)

Landform Evolution and Stratigraphy

Tokachi Research Group

1968 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 1-14
Published: June 30, 1968
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4116/jaqua.7.1

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The stratigraphy and chronology of the Quaternary system in the Tokachi plain, east Hokkaido, have been studied by the present research group since 1962. For the correlation of the topographic surfaces in this plain, several pumice-fall deposits and buried soils were used for as excellent key-beds, viz, in descending order, Eniwa pumice-fall deposit “a”, Shikotsu pumice-fall deposits 1 and 2, orange-colored pumice-fall deposit, chocolate-colored buried soils I, II and III, red palaeosol, and white clay. Their characteristic features were briefly described. The stratigraphic relation between the topographic surfaces and the above key-beds was observed in detail and tabulated as follows:
Topographic surface Key-bed
Some of these surfaces are fans or the like, which extend in the western margin of this plain or the eastern piedmond of Hidaka range and show successive disconformable relations. On the basis of the correlation of the topographic surfaces and Quaternary deposits in this plain, Table 1 is established.

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Strike-slip Faulting of Late Quaternary along the Median Dislocation Line in the Surroundings of Awa-Ikeda, Northeastern Shikoku

Atsumasa OKADA

1968 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 15-26_2
Published: June 30, 1968
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4116/jaqua.7.15

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The Median Dislocation (or Tectonic) Line extends nearly 900 kilometers from Central Honshu to Kyushu through Kii and northern Shikoku, trending from ENE to WSW and dividing the southwest Japan into the Inner and Outer Zones.
Many terraces and alluvial fans displaced both vertically and horizontally are found along this great fault line in the lower drainage basin of the Yoshino River, northeastern Shikoku.
This paper describes mainly landforms by the recent faulting in the surroundings of Awa-Ikeda. It is generally recognized in this area that horizontal component of the displacement is larger than vertical one. It is considered, therefore, that the Median Dislocation Line is a great right-lateral fault, at least, active in the Quaternary, as Kaneko (1965) has pointed out from a largely photogeological study. The displacement along the Ikeda fault (the Median Dislocation Line) is estimated as follows:
At Awa-Ikeda (Fig. 2·4, Photo. 1·2), horizontal and vertical displacements amount to about 200 meters (or more) and 50 meters, respectively, in the recent 30, 000 years, judging from the offset of back scarps of fluvial terraces and the difference of heights in bases of the terrace deposits, which have a clay bed including the buried woods caluculated at 27, 700 and 23, 600 years B. P. At Higashi-Suzu (Fig. 5-B: central part), horizontal and vertical displacements are about 45 meters and 5-8 meters, respectively, probably in the newer age than 10, 000 years. At the lower reach of the Nishitani Creek (Fig. 5-B: east part), about 50 meters and 7-9 meters, and at Aziro (Fig. 7: west part), about 70 meters and 15 meters, respectively, are measured.

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Erratum to : Fossil Gladocera in Lake Nojiri and Ecological Order

1968 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 26
Published: 1968
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4116/jaqua.7.1_26

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Type Villafranchian and the Problem on Pliocene-Pleistocene Boundary

Nobuo IKEBE

1968 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 30-36
Published: June 30, 1968
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4116/jaqua.7.30

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