沈み込み帯前孤ウェッジの岩石物性を支配する地質過程

学位の種別: 課程博士審査委員会委員 : （主査）東京大学教授 佐藤 比呂志, 海洋研究開発機構研究開発センター長 山田 泰広, 東京大学教授 平田 直, 東京大学准教授 飯高 隆, 東京大学教授 木村 学, 東京大学准教授 安藤 亮輔University of Tokyo(東京大学

Release of mineral-bound water prior to subduction tied to shallow seismogenic slip off Sumatra

Plate-boundary fault rupture during the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman subduction earthquake extended closer to the trench than expected, increasing earthquake and tsunami size. International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 362 sampled incoming sediments offshore northern Sumatra, revealing recent release of fresh water within the deep sediments. Thermal modeling links this freshening to amorphous silica dehydration driven by rapid burial-induced temperature increases in the past 9 million years. Complete dehydration of silicates is expected before plate subduction, contrasting with prevailing models for subduction seismogenesis calling for fluid production during subduction. Shallow slip offshore Sumatra appears driven by diagenetic strengthening of deeply buried fault-forming sediments, contrasting with weakening proposed for the shallow Tohoku-Oki 2011 rupture, but our results are applicable to other thickly sedimented subduction zones including those with limited earthquake records

Origin of the early Cenozoic belt boundary thrust and Izanagi–Pacific ridge subduction in the western Pacific margin

The belt boundary thrust within the Cretaceous–Neogene accretionary complex of the Shimanto Belt, southwestern Japan, extends for more than ~ 1 000 km along the Japanese islands. A common understanding of the origin of the thrust is that it is an out of sequence thrust as a result of continuous accretion since the late Cretaceous and there is a kinematic reason for its maintaining a critically tapered wedge. The timing of the accretion gap and thrusting, however, coincides with the collision of the Paleocene–early Eocene Izanagi–Pacific spreading ridges with the trench along the western Pacific margin, which has been recently re‐hypothesized as younger than the previous assumption with respect to the Kula‐Pacific ridge subduction during the late Cretaceous. The ridge subduction hypothesis provides a consistent explanation for the cessation of magmatic activity along the continental margin and the presence of an unconformity in the forearc basin. This is not only the case in southwestern Japan, but also along the more northern Asian margin in Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Sikhote‐Alin. This Paleocene–early Eocene ridge subduction hypothesis is also consistent with recently acquired tomographic images beneath the Asian continent. The timing of the Izanagi–Pacific ridge subduction along the western Pacific margin allows for a revision of the classic hypothesis of a great reorganization of the Pacific Plate motion between ~ 47 Ma and 42 Ma, illustrated by the bend in the Hawaii–Emperor chain, because of the change in subduction torque balance and the Oligocene–Miocene back arc spreading after the ridge subduction in the western Pacific margin.Published versio

Normal faulting and mass movement during ridge subduction inferred from porosity transition and zeolitization in the Costa Rica subduction zone

Subduction of the buoyant Cocos Ridge offshore the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica substantially affects the upper plate structure through a variety of processes, including outer forearc uplift, erosion, and focused fluid flow. To investigate the nature of a major seismic reflector (MSR) developed between slope sediments (late Pliocene-late Pleistocene silty clay) and underlying higher velocity upper plate materials (late Pliocene-early Pleistocene clayey siltstone), we infer possible mechanisms of sediment removal by examining the consolidation state, microstructure, and zeolite assemblages of sediments recovered from Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 344 Site U1380. Formation of Ca-type zeolites, laumontite and heulandite, inferred to form in the presence of Ca-rich fluids, has caused porosity reduction. We adjust measured porosity values for these pore-filling zeolites and evaluated the new porosity profile to estimate how much material was removed at the MSR. Based on the composite porosity-depth curve, we infer the past burial depth of the sediments directly below the MSR. The corrected and uncorrected porosity-depth curves yield values of 800 ± 70 m and 900 ± 70 m, respectively. We argue that deposition and removal of this entire estimated thickness in 0.49 Ma would require unrealistically large sedimentation rates and suggest that normal faulting at the MSR must contribute. The porosity offset could be explained with maximum 250 ± 70 m of normal fault throw, or 350 ± 70 m if the porosity were not corrected. The porosity correction significantly reduces the amount of sediment removal needed for the combination of mass movement and normal faulting that characterize the slope in this margin.Published versio

Unconformity between a Late Miocene-Pliocene accretionary prism (Nishizaki Formation) and Pliocene trench-slope sediments (Kagamigaura Formation), central Japan

International audienceUnconformities provide key geological evidence of a major tectonic event, a period without the deposition of sediment, or an environmental change (e.g. Tomkeieff 1962). In particular, an unconformity between an accretionary prism and trench-slope sediments at the toe of a plate-subduction margin provides information on the temporal and spatial evolution of tectonic processes during accretion (e.g. Strasser et al. 2009). Recently excavated outcrop at the southern tip of the Boso Peninsula, central Japan (Figs 1-3), contains an unconformity between a Late Miocene-Pliocene accretionary prism (the Nishizaki Formation) and Pliocene trench-slope sediments (the Kagamigaura Formation). There are major differences in the amount of clockwise rotation associated with multiple collisions of the Izu-Bonin Island Arc as well as tectonic structure between these formations (Yamamoto & Kawakami 2005)

Hanging wall deformation of a seismogenic megasplay fault in an accretionary prism: The Nobeoka Thrust in southwestern Japan

International audienceThe structure and occurrence of deformation within the hanging wall of the Nobeoka Thrust in Kyushu, Japan, was investigated to understand the dynamic aspects of splay faulting in relation to seismic events. From field observations, hanging wall is suggested to have undergone four phases of deformation. The first phase involved horizontal shortening, as documented by folding and thrusting, followed by a phase of vertical loading shown by the development of horizontal slaty cleavages, pressure solution, and cleavage-parallel mineral vein precipitation. A third phase involved shearing, and deformation along cleavage restricted to near the Nobeoka Thrust, while the fourth phase produced widespread, brittle fracturing associated with the development of pseudotachylyte-bearing faults and tension crack filling veins high angle to cleavage. These four phases can be explained as follows. During the inter-seismic period, an extensionally stable taper was maintained in the inner wedge of the accretionary prism by dominant vertical loading (σ1), in combination with a lesser amount of horizontal compression (σ2) related to the locking of the mega-thrust. Elastic strain energy in the hanging wall of the inner wedge was co-seismically released by slip on the mega-thrust and horizontal shortening in the outer wedge associated with dynamic ductile weakening of the fault plane. This sudden release of elastic strain caused brittle fracturing with σ1 at a high angle to the shear surface of the Nobeoka Thrust, most of the displacement resulting from deformation of the footwall

Fluvial Sedimentary Response to Late Quaternary Climate and Tectonics at the Himalayan Frontal Thrust, Central Nepal

Abstract To investigate the subsurface structure surrounding the Main Frontal Thrust (MFT) in central Nepal, we drilled and cored sediments to depths of 45–100 m at 10 sites. Our boreholes were located along previously acquired high‐resolution seismic profiles across the MFT imaging the upper 1–2 km of the subsurface, which revealed a beveled erosional surface in the hanging wall above a broad, gentle anticline, as well as growth strata in the footwall. The boreholes exhibit interlayered clays, silts, sands, and gravels, dated with optically stimulated luminescence and radiocarbon to <72.5 ± 4.3 ka, with a transition from finer to coarser sediments at ∼13.5 ± 0.1 ka. Near the fault tip, the deposits exhibit steeper dips and deformation bands. A 25‐m‐thick section of silt and clay above the south end of the buried anticline is interpreted as a temporary lacustrine depocenter formed due to uplift near the fault tip. Based on the distribution of marker beds and sediment ages, we interpret a shortening rate of 3.1–12.1 m/ka on the MFT. Three major transitions between fluvial‐lacustrine and coarse fluvial channel facies are inferred from the boreholes, and the timings of these transitions correlate with Indian monsoonal intensity variations linked to Earth's precession. We infer that a strengthened monsoon led to increased river discharge and advance of coarse bedload‐dominant braided channels, whereas a weak monsoon formed a finer‐grained channel environment. These monsoonal climate variations have affected the depositional environment and river base levels in this region, influencing the formation and apparent relative uplift of nearby river terraces