日本地球惑星科学連合2019年大会

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セッション記号 S (固体地球科学) » S-MP 岩石学・鉱物学

[S-MP32] 変形岩・変成岩とテクトニクス

2019年5月29日(水) 13:45 〜 15:15 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:針金 由美子(産業技術総合研究所)、中村 佳博(国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所 地質調査総合センター)

[SMP32-P18] 断層がウジ帯により記録される繰り返し地震すべり:野島断層ボーリングコアからの証拠

*林 愛明1西脇 隆文1 (1.京都大学大学院理学研究科地球惑星科学専攻地球物理学教室)

キーワード:断層ガウジ、野島断層、地震すべり

It is well known that large intra-continental earthquakes occur repeatedly along mature active faults and that the seismic slip may be recorded by cataclastic rocks, including fault gouge zones, that form at shallow depths in the upper crust (e.g., Lin, 2008). A fault gouge zone, bounded by a principal fault plane, is considered to represent the seismic slip zone that accommodates most of the accumulated fault displacement in the seismogenic regime. Therefore, studies of fault gouge zones along mature active faults would provide important information for reconstructing the long-term seismic faulting behavior of such faults, as well as providing new insights into the individual seismic slipping processes of active faults and their paleoseismic histories.

In the present study, we focused on the structural features of the fault gouge zone observed in drill cores acquired from nine holes that were drilled through the Nojima Fault (NF) at different depths from ~260 to 900 m at the Ogura site (Lin and Nishiwaki, 2019). Drilling investigations and structural analyses of drill cores reveal that a ~60 m wide fault damage zone containing a 10–30 cm thick fault gouge zone developed along the Nojima Fault (NF), on which the 1995 Mw 6.9 Kobe (Japan) earthquake occurred. The fault gouge zone was observed at depths of ~260 to 900 m in nine drill holes that intersected the NF. Our findings show that i) the fault gouge zone observed at different depths in the nine drill cores is the principal fault slip zone of the NF, ii) the fault gouge zone can be divided into 11–20 thin layers of different color, and iii) the individually colored layers contain different color breccias of fault gouge that are offset and/or cut by cracks and crack-filled calcite and quartz veinlets. Our results reveal that the fault gouge zone probably records more than 11–20 paleoseismic faulting events along the NF during the late Pleistocene-Holocene.

References:

1) Lin, A., 2008. Fossil Earthquakes: The Formation and Preservation of Pseudotachylytes. Springer, Berlin, 348p (ISBN 978-3-540-74235-7).
2) Lin, A., Nishiwaki, T., 2019. Repeated seismic slipping events recorded in a fault gouge zone: evidence from the Nojima Fault drill holes, SW Japan. Geophys. Res. Lett., doi: 10.1029/2019GL081927.