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Masayuki IMAIZUMI, Tomoyuki TOMITA, Yoshimi ZAHA1989 Volume 30 Issue 1 Pages 1-13
Published: March 25, 1989
Released on J-STAGE: February 23, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis article deals with engineering properties and diagenesis process of the Ryukyu Limestone belonging to the Pleistocene Ryukyu Group widely exposed on south-east part of Miyakojima of the Ryukyu Islands.
Karst topography found within Miyakojima includes limestone wall and mound. Limestone wall is the row of ridges along normal faults.
On the basis of fossils contained and matrix of the rocks, the Ryukyu limestone is classified principally into four sedimentary facies: coral detrital limestone which contains corals and detritus, coral algal-mat limestone which contains autochthonous corals and algal-mat, algal ball limestone containing algal ball or rhodolites, detrital limestone which consists of detritus of calcareous organic remains.
Compressive strength of the Ryukyu limestone shows a wide scatter from 1 to 400 kgf/cm2. To know regional engineering properties of the Ryukyu limstone, we measured rebound value of limestone on outcrops in Miyakojima by a Schmid-Rock-Hammer and petropysical properties such as density, specific gravity, porosity and compressive strength.
The results are summarized as follows:
1) On the basis of frequency of rebound values, three patterns are recognized: Coral algal-mat limestone and algal ball limestone showe hihger rebound value. Coral detrital limestone shows lower rebound value. Detrital limestone shows a wide range rebound values.
2) The higher rebound value zones correspond to the karst topography of limestone wall and distribution zones composed of coral algal-mat limestone and algal ball limestone. Whereas lower rebound value zones correspond to coral detrital limestone.
3) Rebound values have relation with porosities taking into account of the cavities.
These results led us to the following hypothesis: Diagenesis of the carbonate sediments is influenced by initial porosity of each sedimentary facies, cementation and solution caused by infiltration of meteoric water. Cementation would have occured in a early stage of diagenesis process, and brought on the decrease of primary porosity and the increase of strength. Formation of secondary porosity by solution would cause the some decrease of strength.View full abstractDownload PDF (2958K) -
A Study Based on Physical and Mechanical MethodsTeruo SHIMIZU1989 Volume 30 Issue 1 Pages 14-28
Published: March 25, 1989
Released on J-STAGE: February 23, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSAs the argillaceous sediments are buried deeper and deeper, the sediments become solidified gradually by compaction, dissolution and lithification through overburden load. Even the argillaceous sediments in the same geological age bear different characteristics physically, mechanically and chemically due to the different sedimentary conditions. Argillaceous sediments were sampled in the seven different sites throughout Japan and various kinds of laboratory experiments including physical, mechanical, chemical and mineralogical tests were conducted.
In the part I of the report, the burial depth of these argillaceous sediments was examined, mainly based on the physical and mechanical causes, that is, the relationship between unconfined compressive strength and the state of packing among grains by compaction.
As a result of these examinations, it was proved that compaction and lithification mainly caused by overburden load and the burial depth of these argillaceous sediments could be estimated by their consolidation yield stress obtained by laboratory tests.
These burial depths coincided with the value obtained from the porosity of argillaceous sediments in the oil field in Japan (Aoyagi. 1978) and with the value from the relationship between unconfined compressive strength or porosity and burial depth of argillaceous sediments in Boso peninsula (Okamoto and Kojima. 1981)
The unconfined compressive strength, however, varies much with the amount of micrograin or filling material of sediments.
The examination for chemical and mineralogical tests was described in the part II of the report.View full abstractDownload PDF (2360K) -
Facies analysis in Paleo-Tokyo Bay areaFujio MASUDA1989 Volume 30 Issue 1 Pages 29-40
Published: March 25, 1989
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Hiroaki TSUKAHARA, Ryuji IKEDA1989 Volume 30 Issue 1 Pages 41-46
Published: March 25, 1989
Released on J-STAGE: February 23, 2010
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