日本地球惑星科学連合2019年大会

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[S-CG48] Science of slow earthquakes: Toward unified understandings of whole earthquake process

2019年5月29日(水) 17:15 〜 18:30 ポスター会場 (幕張メッセ国際展示場 8ホール)

コンビーナ:井出 哲(東京大学大学院理学系研究科地球惑星科学専攻)、廣瀬 仁(神戸大学都市安全研究センター)、氏家 恒太郎(筑波大学生命環境系)、波多野 恭弘(東京大学地震研究所)

[SCG48-P20] スロー地震発生深度で形成された沈み込み剪断帯における蛇紋岩の脱水

*森 康1重野 未来1氏家 恒太郎2野呂 和也2西山 忠男3 (1.北九州市立自然史・歴史博物館、2.筑波大学、3.熊本大学)

キーワード:蛇紋岩メランジュ、剪断帯、脱水、間隙流体圧、西彼杵変成岩類、深部スロー地震

Long-term slow slip events (L-SSEs) and episodic tremor and slip (ETS) occur along the subduction plate boundary at depths of 30–45 km (Obara, 2002; Shelly et al., 2006). These deep slow earthquakes are probably induced by high pore-fluid pressure. Based on geological study, we propose that the high pore-fluid pressure can be produced by metasomatic dehydration of serpentinite in subduction shear zones at source depths of deep slow earthquakes.

The Nishisonogi metamorphic rocks in Kyushu, Japan, are part of a Late Cretaceous subduction complex metamorphosed at P ≈ 1 GPa and T ≈ 470 °C. The P-T conditions are close to those of source depths of deep slow earthquakes. Serpentinite mélanges intercalated with the metamorphic rocks contain blocks of metabasite, metapelite and albitite. The mélange matrix consists of chlorite-actinolite schist (CAS), talc schist and schistose serpentinite. Intense shear deformation is concentrated in the CAS, and the serpentinite mélanges have the characteristics of anastomosing shear zones.

Bulk chemical composition of the rocks suggests that the CAS is the metasomatized mixture of serpentinite and metabasite. In addition, chemical mass balance indicates considerable dehydration during the CAS formation, along with a slight increase of solid volume. These findings suggest that the CAS formation involves the build-up of pore-fluid pressure. The high pore-fluid pressure results in the concentration of shear deformation into the weakened CAS.

Dehydration of serpentinite probably plays a key role in deep slow earthquakes (Poulet et al., 2014; Okazaki and Katayama, 2015). Thermal dehydration of serpentinite occurs at ~600 °C along the subduction plate boundary (Auzende et al., 2006), which is much higher temperature than that of source depths of deep slow earthquakes. In contrast, metasomatic dehydration of serpentinite described here could occur at source depths of deep slow earthquakes.

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