5:51 PM - 5:54 PM
[SSS28-P22] Paleoseimological study of the Kokura-higashi fault and the Fukuchiyama fault zone in northern Kyushu Island, Japan
3-min talk in an oral session
Keywords:Kokura-higashi fault, Fukuchiyama fault, Fukuoka prefecture, Kyushu, active fault, paleoseismology
A trench is excavated on the fault trace of the Kokura-higashi fault, and three trenches are excavated on the Fukuchiyama fault. On the trench wall of the Kokura-higashi fault, a steeply dipping fault cutting bedrocks and overlying sediments was cropped out. The lower part of the sediments includes some humic soil layers with many wood fragments. The fault displaces these layers vertically in more than 1 meter, and cuts until the top of the sediments just below artificial soil. Two faulting events and former two liquefied events are revealed on the trench wall. The penultimate faulting event is recognized because younger sediments cover a subordinary fault cut lower humic soil layers at the downthrown side of the main fault. This event may have occurred in 19-20 ka.
As the result of the trenching survey on the Fukuchiyama fault, the boundary fault between the Paleogene sedimentary rocks and the Paleozoic green rocks was recongnized. This fault cuts overlying gravel and sandy silt layer in one of the trenches.