Slip sense inversion on active strike-slip faults in southwest Japan and its implications for Cenozoic tectonic evolution

Analyses of deflected river channels, offset of basement rocks, and fault rock structures reveal that slip sense inversion occurred on major active strike-slip faults in southwest Japan such as the Yamasaki and Mitoke fault zones and the Median Tectonic Line (MTL). Along the Yamasaki and Mitoke fault zones, small-size rivers cutting shallowly mountain slopes and Quaternary terraces have been deflected sinistrally, whereas large-size rivers which deeply incised into the Mio-Pliocene elevated peneplains show no systematically sinistral offset or complicated hairpin-shaped deflection. When the sinistral offsets accumulated on the small-size rivers are restored, the large-size rivers show residual dextral deflections. This dextral offset sense is consistent with that recorded in the pre-Cenozoic basement rocks. S–C fabrics of fault gouge and breccia zone developed in the active fault zones show sinistral shear sense compatible with earthquake focal mechanisms, whereas those of the foliated cataclasite indicate a dextral shear sense. These observations show that the sinistral strike-slip shear fabrics were overprinted on dextral ones which formed during a previous deformation phase. Similar topographic and geologic features are observed along the MTL in the central-eastern part of the Kii Peninsula. Based on these geomorphological and geological data, we infer that the slip sense inversion occurred in the period between the late Tertiary and mid-Quaternary period. This strike-slip inversion might result from the plate rearrangement consequent to the mid-Miocene Japan Sea opening event. This multidisciplinary study gives insight into how active strike-slip fault might evolves with time.     

Seismological structure and implications of collision between the Ontong Java Plateau and Solomon Island Arc from ocean bottom seismometer–airgun data

A seismic refraction–reflection experiment using ocean bottom seismometers and a tuned airgun array was conducted around the Solomon Island Arc to investigate the fate of an oceanic plateau adjacent to a subduction zone. Here, the Ontong Java Plateau is converging from north with the Solomon Island Arc as part of the Pacific Plate. According to our two-dimensional P-wave velocity structure modeling, the thickness of the Ontong Java Plateau is about 33 km including a thick (15 km) high-velocity layer (7.2 km/s). The thick crust of the Ontong Java Plateau still persists below the Malaita Accreted Province. We interpreted that the shallow part of the Ontong Java Plateau is accreted in front of the Solomon Island Arc as the Malaita Accreted Province and the North Solomon Trench are not a subduction zone but a deformation front of accreted materials. The subduction of the India–Australia Plate from the south at the San Cristobal Trench is confirmed to a depth of about 20 km below sea level. Seismicity around our survey area shows shallow (about 50 km) hypocenters from the San Cristobal Trench and deep (about 200 km) hypocenters from the other side of the Solomon Island Arc. No earthquakes occurred around the North Solomon Trench. The deep seismicity and our velocity model suggest that the lower part of the Ontong Java Plateau is subducting. After the oceanic plateau closes in on the arc, the upper part of the oceanic plateau is accreted with the arc and the lower part is subducted below the arc. The estimation of crustal bulk composition from the velocity model indicates that the upper portion and the total of the Solomon Island Arc are SiO₂ 58% and 53%, respectively, which is almost same as that of the Izu–Bonin Arc. This means that the Solomon Island Arc can be a contributor to growing continental crust. The bulk composition of the Ontong Java Plateau is SiO₂ 49–50%, which is meaningfully lower than those of continents. The accreted province in front of the arc is growing with the convergence of the two plates, and this accretion of the upper part of the oceanic plateau may be another process of crustal growth, although the proportion of such contribution is not clear.     

Cenozoic lithospheric extension induced magmatism in Southwest Japan

Island chains off western Kyushu are the surface exposure in the northern margin of the Taiwan–Sinzi Folded Zone that spreads along the arc–trench system in the back-arc side from SW Japan to Taiwan. Intermittent igneous activity between the Middle Miocene and Holocene occurred on these islands and widely covered or intruded sedimentary rocks of Early–Middle Miocene. Geochemistry of the volcanic rocks from the Hirado, Ikitsuki and Takushima islands believed to relate to the back-arc opening along the East China and Japan Seas shows a temporal change in source material. Submarine to sub-aerial volcanism occurred on Hirado Island at 15 Ma during the final opening stage of the East China Sea producing tholeiitic basalt and associated andesite–dacite. These eruptives show low incompatible element contents and high FeO*/MgO ratios and reflect a tholeiitic differentiation trend. High Sr and Pb and low Nd isotopic ratios suggest the involvement of EM2-like lithospheric mantle and crustal material in the formation of these syn-opening volcanic rocks. Post-opening alkali basalt volcanism occurred at 9–6 Ma on the islands is characterized by OIB-like higher large ionic lithophile elements (LILE) and high field strength elements (HFSE) compared to 15 Ma basalts in this region and Quaternary basalts along the volcanic front. They have variable range of incompatible element concentrations and ratios along with variable Sr, Pb and Nd isotopic ratios suggesting the involvement of both lithospheric and asthenospheric sources at variable melting degrees (from 4% to less than 15%). The observation that the isotopic compositions of Quaternary alkali basalts south of the studied area are even more depleted suggests an increase in the involvement of asthenospheric source with time.     

Kurosegawa Terrane as a Transform Fault Zone in Southwest Japan

The Kurosegawa Terrane intervening in the Jurassic-Early Cretaceous accretionary complexes along the Pacific side of the SW Japanese Islands is a serpentinite mélange zone. It contains various kinds of exotic rocks, for example, granitoids, metamorphic rocks, Siluro-Devonian deposits and is intimately associated with Cretaceous forearc basin deposits. The terrane is regarded as a key to clarify the Mesozoic geotectonic history of the western circum-Pacific orogenic belts. The current model, in which the formation of the Kurosegawa Terrane is attributed to nappe-movement or sinistral strike-slip faulting, can explain neither the mode of occurrence of the Kurosegawa Terrane we observed in eastern Kii Peninsula nor the array of evidence obtained from the Ryoke Terrane southward to the Shimanto Terrane. We suggest a new hypothesis in which the Kurosegawa Terrane was a transform fault zone that originated because of oceanic ridge subduction along the southern margin of the coeval accretionary prism (Butsuzo T.L.) in the late Early Cretaceous. Our model is mainly based on new geological evidence from the Kurosegawa Terrane in eastern Kii Peninsula where the deepest erosion level is exposed due to neotectonic uplift.     

我国西南地区土地荒漠化及其防治对策

概述了我国西南地区土地荒漠化的现状、表现形式,并从自然和社会经济等方面分析了该区土地荒漠化形成的原因,提出土地荒漠化防治对策．     

北部湾经济圈的形成和开发设想

随着中越关系的改善以及南昆铁路即将通车,大西南与北部湾的联系日渐密切。以北部湾 中心,将迅速形成区域合作体系－经济圈。文中分析了北部湾的战略区位及其形成经济圈的区域环境的条件,认为其区位优越,且无论是国际大环境还是区域内部小环境都有利于经济圈的形成;还分析了北部湾经济圈形成所必需的物质基础,认为其具有大储量的现代共业资源、曲折的海岸线和众多的优良港湾、丰富的热带来势带作物资源和海洋生物资源以及特有     

涡旋相互作用和拟序结构的形成

偶极子与台风涡旋的相互作用,可以激发出一种新的拟序结构。这种拟序结构的形成对台风涡旋移动具有重要影响。     

东移偶极子与台风涡旋的相互作用

用β平面准地转正压模式实施８组试验,分析东移偶极子与台风涡旋的相互作用。结果指出：这种相互作用可以引起台风环流１波非对称结构向２波非对称结构的转换;引起台风涡旋随时间衰减的速度显著变慢;引起沿西北方向移动的正常路径向北折转向或打转等异常路径的转化。     

滇西南景谷-镇沅地区早第三纪陆-陆碰撞期走滑挤压盆地

中始新世(45Ma),新特提斯洋闭合,印度板块与欧亚板块碰撞。作为这一事件的陆内效应,滇西南地区沿先期断裂发生北北东向的逆冲推覆,兼具右行走滑。位于澜沧江断裂、酒房断裂和无量山-营盘山断裂之间的地区发生沉降形成走滑挤压盆地。盆地为冲积扇和河流相沉积物所充填。根据沉积特征分析,澜沧江断裂和酒房断裂组成上叠式逆冲系,无量山-营盘山断裂右行滑移50km。盆地的形成演化与青藏高原及东亚地区的区域性构造事件具有明显的耦合关系。     

台风涡旋螺旋波及其波列传播动力学特征：诊断分析

运用台风移动涡旋影响域统计分析动态区域序列概念，采用 3个目标台风卫星TBB资料 ，对台风螺旋云带波列结构特征进行了功率谱合成分析。研究结果揭示出台风涡旋中心与周 边区域对流云的相关场呈螺旋带波状特征；台风影响域螺旋波亦表现出显著次天气、中尺度 波动特征，其波动周期尺度及其传播相速可类似重力内波与涡旋Rossby波，即周期呈双峰特 征，为大于6h与24h左右时间尺度；螺旋波高、低空流型特征与台风的维持、发展结构特征 相关；扰动TBB场时间偏差分布呈类似涡旋Rossby波螺旋波列，其波列路径与涡 旋Rossby波传播特征相似，并提出了台风涡旋螺旋波结构模型。