Pelagic smectite as an important factor in tsunamigenic slip along the Japan Trench
Pelagic smectite as an important factor in tsunamigenic slip along the Japan Trench
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远洋蒙皂石是日本海沟海啸滑移的重要因素
作者:
Kameda;J.;Shimizu;M.;Ujiie;K.;Hirose;T.;Ikari;M.;Mori;J.;Oohashi;K.;and Kimura;G.
The very large slip on the shallow portion of the subduction interface during the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake (M w 9.0) caused a huge tsunami along the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan. In order to elucidate the mechanics of such tsunamigenic slip, the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 343 (Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project, JFAST), was carried out one year after the earthquake and succeeded in recovering rocks constituting the active plate boundary fault. Our mineralogical analyses using X-ray diffraction reveal that the shallow portion of the fault zone that caused the earthquake is significantly enriched in smectite compared to the surrounding sediments, which may be intimately linked to the tsunamigenic shallow faulting. For comparison, we also analyzed mineralogical features of incoming sediments just prior to subduction, recovered on the outer rise of the Japan Trench (Site 436, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 56), and found a characteristic smectite-rich horizon in the uppermost∼ 5 m of the pelagic clay layer. This horizon should be mechanically weak and will become the future plate boundary fault, as observed in the JFAST cores. The smectite-rich deposits are broadly distributed in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, and may therefore potentially enhance conditions for large shallow slip during earthquakes that occur over a broad area of the Japan Trench plate boundary, which would result in large tsunamis for this region.
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DOI:
10.2973/odp.proc.sr.131.105.1993
发表时间:
1993
期刊:
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影响因子:
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作者:
M. Underwood;R. Orr;K. Pickering;A. Taira
通讯作者:
A. Taira
影响因子:
3.9
作者:
K. Ujiie;G. Kimura
通讯作者:
K. Ujiie;G. Kimura
影响因子:
3
作者:
Fujii, Yushiro;Satake, Kenji;Kanazawa, Toshihiko
通讯作者:
Kanazawa, Toshihiko
影响因子:
56.9
作者:
Kelin Wang;M. Kinoshita
通讯作者:
M. Kinoshita
影响因子:
56.9
作者:
Ide, Satoshi;Baltay, Annemarie;Beroza, Gregory C.
通讯作者:
Beroza, Gregory C.