Scientific Drilling of Mass-Transport Deposits in the Nankai Accretionary Wedge: First Results from IODP Expedition 333
Scientific Drilling of Mass-Transport Deposits in the Nankai Accretionary Wedge: First Results from IODP Expedition 333
复制标题
南开增生楔中物质传输沉积物的科学钻探:IODP 333 探险队的初步结果
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-2162-3_60
复制
发表时间:
2012
期刊:
影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
I. Scientists
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
M. Strasser;P. Henry;T. Kanamatsu;M. Thu;G. Moore;I. Scientists
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 333 drilled and cored a Pleistocene-to-Holocene succession of a slope-basin in the Nankai accretionary wedge, offshore southwest Japan. The slope-basin represents the depocentre for downslope sediment transport and comprises several mass-transport deposits (MTDs), including an up to 180 m thick MTD. The recovered section (0–315 m below seafloor) records ∼1 Million years of submarine landsliding history in this active tectonic setting. We present D/V Chikyu shipboard results from Site C0018, including litho- bio- magneto- and tephra-stratigraphy and physical properties data. Six MTDs of thickness ranging from 0.5 to 61 m were identified from visual core description and X-ray CT-scans. The thickest MTD is also the oldest (emplaced between 0.85 and 1.05 Ma) and it coincides with a lithological transition between a sandy turbidite sequence below, and ash-bearing hemipelagites comprising several MTDs above. The deformation style within the MTD is heterogeneous: intervals of disturbed sediments are interbedded within intervals inferred to retain original, coherent bedding. In three occurrences the base of the MTD is defined by a shear zone within fine-grained sediments. These observations suggest that slumping and mass-transport is dominated by localized plastic deformation. Furthermore, mass movements are an active process that is shaping the present-day seafloor, as evidenced by numerous surficial slump scars and the occurrence of a shallowly buried, presumably Holocene MTD at Site C0018.