Episodic accretion and metamorphism of Jurassic accretionary complex based on biostratigraphy and K-Ar geochronology in the western part of the Mino-Tanba Belt, Southwest Japan

Island Arc

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 321-336

  Takami, Michio ^a   Itaya, Tetsumaru ^b  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretionary complex; Jurassic; K Ar age; Microfossil age; Subduction weak metamorphism

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; JURASSIC; METAMORPHISM; SUBDUCTION;

JAPAN, HONSHU, MINO-TANBA BELT;

EID: 0030499391     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.1996.tb00034.x     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. FUKUDOMI T. 1990. Jurassic melange, Kanoashi Complex, in western Shimane Prefecture, Southwest Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 96, 653-67 (in Japanese with English abstract).
2. HARLAND W. B., ARMSTRONG R. L, COX A. V., CRAIG L. E., SMITH A. G. & SMITH D. G. 1990. A Geologic time scale 1989. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
3. HAYASAKA Y., ISOZAKI Y. & HARA I.1983. Discovery of Jurassic radiolarians from the Kuga and Kanoashi Groups in the western Chugoku district, southwest Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 89, 527-30 (in Japanese).
4. HIGASHIMOTO S., NUREKI T., KARA L, TSUKUDA E. & NAKAJIMA T. 1983. Geology of the Iwakuni district. Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50 000, Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba (in Japanese with English abstract).
5. HIGASHIMOTO S., TAKAHASHI Y., MAKIMOTO H., WAKITA K. & TSUKUDA E. 1986. Geology of the Otake district. With Geological Sheet Map at 1:50 000, Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba (in Japanese with English abstract).
6. HORI R. 1990. Lower Jurassic radiolarian zones of SW Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeon-tological Society of Japan, New Series 159, 562-86.
7. HORI R. & YAO A. 1988. Parahsuum (radiolaria) from the lower Jurassic of the Inuyama area, central Japan. Journal of Geosciences, Osaka City University 31, 47-61.
8. IMOTO N., SHIMIZU D., MUSASHIMO M. & ISHIDA S. 1989. Geology of the Kyoto-Seihokubu district. With Geological Sheet Map at 1:50 000, Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba (in Japanese with English abstract).
9. ISHIGA H. 1983. Two suites of stratigraphic succession within the Tamba Group in the western part of the Tamba Belt, southwest Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 89, 443-54 (in Japanese with English abstract).
10. ISHIGA H. 1990. Paleozoic radiolarians. In Ichikawa K., Mizutani S., Hara I., Hada S. & Yao A. eds. PreCretaceous Terranes of Japan, Publication of IGCP Project No. 224: Pre-Jurassic Evolution of Eastern Asia, pp. 285-95. Nippon-insatsu, Osaka.
11. ISHIGA H., KITO T. & IMOTO N. 1982. Permian radiolarian biostratigraphy. News of Osaka Micropaleontologists, Special Volume 5, 17-26.
12. ISOZAKIY. 1986. The Shingai Formation in the northern Chichibu Belt, Southwest Japan, and the end-Permian convergent zone along the northern margin of the Kurosegawa Landmass. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 92, 497-516 (in Japanese with English abstract).
13. ISOZAKI Y. & ITAYA T. 1990. K-Ar ages of weakly metamorphosed rocks at the northern margin of Kurosegawa Terrane in central Shikoku and western Ku Peninsula: Extent of the Kurosegawa Terrane in Southwest Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 96, 623-39 (in Japanese with English abstract).
14. ISOZAKI Y. & ITAYA T. 1991. Pre-Jurassic klippe in northern Chichibu Belt in west-central Shikoku, Southwest Japan: Kurosegawa Terrane as a tectonic outlier of the pre-Jurassic rocks of the Inner Zone. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 97, 431-50 (in Japanese with English abstract).
15. ISOZAKI Y., MARUYAMA s. & FURUOKA F. 1990. Accreted oceanic materials in Japan. Tectonophysics 181, 179-205.
16. ISOZAKI Y. & NISHIMURA Y. 1989. Fusaki Formation, Jurassic subduction-accretion complex on Ishigaki Island, southern Ryukyus and its geologic implication to Late Mesozoic convergent margin of East Asia. Memoirs of the Geological Society of Japan 33, 259-75 (in Japanese with English abstract).
17. ITAYA T. & FUKUI S. 1994. Phengite K-Ar ages of schists from the Sanbagawa southern marginal belt, central Shikoku, southwest Japan: Influence of detrital mica and deformation on age. The Island Arc 3, 48-58.
18. ITAYA T., NAGAO K., INOUE K., HONJOU Y., OKADA T. & OGATA A. 1991. Argon isotope analysis by a newly developed mass spectrometric system for K-Ar dating. Mineralogical Journal 15, 203-21.
19. ITAYA T. & TAKASUGI H. 1988. Muscovite K-Ar ages of the Sanbagawa schists, Japan and argon depletion during cooling and deformation. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 100, 281-90.
20. JÄGER E. 1979. Introduction to geochronology. In Jäger E. & Hunziker J. C. eds. Lectures in isotope geology, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1-12.
21. KAWANO Y. & UEDA Y. 1966. K-Ar dating on the igneous rocks 'in Japan (V): Granitic rocks in southwestern Japan. Journal of the Japanese Association of Mineralogists, Petrologists and Economic Geologists 56, 191-211 (in Japanese with English abstract).
22. KAWATO K., ISOZAKI Y. & ITAYA T. 1991. Geotectonic boundary between the Sanbagawa and Chichibu belts in central Shikoku, Southwest Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 97, 959-75 (in Japanese with English abstract).
23. KIMURA K. 1988. Geology and tectonic setting of the Ultra-Tamba Belt in the western part of Ayabe City, Kyoto Prefecture, Southwest Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 94, 361-79 (in Japanese with English abstract).
24. KIMURA K. & HORI R. 1993. Offscraping accretion of Jurassic chert-clastic complexes in the Mino-Tamba Belt, central Japan. Journal of Structural Geology 15, 145-61.
25. KOJIMA G. 1953. Contributions to the knowledge of mutual relations between three metamorphic zones of Chugoku and Shikoku, Southwestern Japan, with special reference to the metamorphic and structural features of each metamorphic zone. Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University, Series C 1, 17-46.
26. KURIMOTO C. 1982. 'Chichibu System' in the area southwest of Koyasan, Wakayama Prefecture: Upper Cretaceous Hanazono Formation. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 88, 901-14 (in Japanese with English abstract).
27. KURIMOTO C. 1986. Northern subbelt of the Chichibu Belt in the Shimizu-Misato area, Wakayama Prefecture, Southwest Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 92, 737-48 (in Japanese with English abstract).
28. KURIMOTO C. 1993. K-Ar ages of the rocks of the Sambagawa, Kurosegavva and Shimanto Terranes in the northeastern part of Wakayama Prefecture, Southwest Japan. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Japan 44, 367-75 (in Japanese with English abstract).
29. LASH G. G. 1985. Recognition of trench fill in orogenic flysch sequence. Geology 13, 867-70.
30. MATSUDA T. & ISOZAKI Y. 1991. Well-documented travel history of Mesozoic pelagic chert in Japan: From remote ocean to subduction zone. Tectonics 10, 475-99.
31. MATSUOKA A. 1984. Togano Group of the Southern Chichibu Terrane in the western part of Kochi Pre-fecture, southwest Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 90, 455-77 (in Japanese with English abstract).
32. MATSUOKA A. 1986. Faunal change of radiolarians around the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary: With special reference to some multi-segmented nassellarians. Fossils 40, 1-15 (in Japanese with English abstract).
33. MATSUOKA A. & YAO A. 1986. A newly proposed radiolarian zonation for the Jurassic of Japan. Marine Micropaleontology 11, 91-105.
34. MINISTRY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE & INDUSTRY 1980. Report of regional investigation, Nishiki river district. The Agency of Resources and Energy (in Japanese).
35. NAGAO K., NISHIDO H., ITAYA T. & OGATA K. 1984. An age determination by K-Ar method. Bulletin of the Hinizen Research Institute, Okayama University of Science 9, 19-38 (in Japanese with English abstract).
36. NAKAE S. 1990. Melanges in the Mesozoic sedimentary complex of the northern part of the Tamba Belt, Southwest Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 96, 353-69.
37. NAKAE S. 1992. A formative process of the sedimentary complex of the Tamaba Terrane in the Wakasa area, Southwest Japan: An example of continuous accretion. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 98, 401-13.
38. NAKAJIMA W. 1960. Geology of the northern margin of the Ryoke Zone in the Yamato Plateau. Earth Science (Chikyu Kagaku) 49, 1-14 (in Japanese with English abstract).
39. NISHIMURA Y. 1971. Regional metamorphism of the Nishiki-cho district, Southwest Japan. Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University, Series C 6, 203-68.
40. NISHIMURA Y., IMAOKA T., UTAMURA Y. & KAMEYA A. 1995. 1:150 000 Newly edited Geological Map of Yamaguchi Prefecture. Geological Society of Yamaguchi.
41. NISHIMURA Y., ISOZAKI Y. & NUREKI T. 1985. Sangun-Chugoku belt and Ryoke belt in eastern Yamaguchi Prefecture, Southwest Japan. In Excursion Guidebook, 92nd Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, pp. 17-49 Geological Society of Japan (in Japanese).
42. NISHIMURA Y., ITAYA T., ISOZAKI Y. & KAMEYA A. 1989. Depositional age and metamorphic history of 220 Ma high P/T type metamorphic rocks: An example of the Nishiki-cho area, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Southwest Japan. Memoirs of the Geological Society of Japan 33, 143-66 (in Japanese with English abstract).
43. OTSUKA T. 1985. Upper Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata in the northeastern part of the Mino Terrane, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 91, 583-98 (in Japanese with English abstract).
44. OTSUKA T. 1988. Paleozoic-Mesozoic sedimentary complex in the eastern Mino Terrane, central Japan and its Jurassic tectonism. Journal of Geosciences, Osaka City University 31, 63-122.
45. OTSUKI K. Emplacement path and traveling time of Sanbagawa high-P metamorphic rocks and thermal structure of the accretionary prism: An estimation by quasi-3-dimensional corner-flow model. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 99, 431-41 (in Japanese with English abstract).
46. PESSAGNO E. A. JR., FINCH w. & ABBOTT P. L. 1979. Upper Triassic radiolaria from the San Hipolito For-mation, Baja California. Micropaleontology 25, 160-97.
47. PIPER D. J. W., VON HUENE R. & DUNCAN J. R. 1973. Late Quaternary sedimentation in the active eastern Aleutian Trench. Geology 1, 19-22.
48. SAMPLE J. C. & FISHER D. M. 1986. Duplex accretion and underplating in an ancient accretionary complex, Kodiak Islands, Alaska. Geology 14, 160-63.
49. SATO T., HASHIMOTO K. & SUYAMA Y. 1986. Discovery of a Late Jurassic Ammonite Perisphinctes from the Kuga Group in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Bulletin of the Yamaguchi Prefectural Yamaguchi Museum 12, 1-5 (in Japanese with English description of the fossil).
50. SCHOLL D. w.f VON HUENE R., VALLIER T. L. & HOWELL D. G. 1980. Sedimentary masses and concepts about tectonic processes at underthrust ocean margins. Geology 8, 564-68.
51. SEELY D. R., VAIL P. R. & WALTON G. G. 1974. Trench slope model. In Burk C. A. & Drake C. L. eds. The geology of continental margins, pp. 249-60. Springer-Verlag, New York.
52. SILVER E. A., ELLIS M. J., BREEN N. A. & SHIPLEY T. H. 1985. Comments on the growth of accretionary wedges. Geology 13, 6-9.
53. STEIGER R. & JÄGER E. 1977. Subcommission on geochronology: Convention on the use of decay constants in geo- and cosmochronology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 36, 359-62.
54. SUZUKI H. 1993. The Canoptum Assemblage (radiolaria) from the Umenoki Unit (the Northern Chichibu Belt) in the Kamikatsu Town area, Tokushima Prefecture, Southwest Japan. News of Osaka Micropaleontologists, Special Volume 9, 109-17 (in Japanese with English abstract).
55. SUZUKI H. & FUKUDOMI T. 1993. The Canoptum Assemblage from the Kanoashi Complex, Shimane Prefecture. Abstracts, 100th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, 252 (in Japanese).
56. SUZUKI H., ISOZAKI Y. & ITAYA T. 1990. Tectonic superposition of the Kurosegawa Terrane upon the Sanbagawa Metamorphic Belt in eastern Shikoku, Southwest Japan: K-Ar ages of weakly metamorphosed rocks in northeastern Kamikatsu Town, Tokushima Prefecture. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 96, 143-53 (in Japanese with English abstract).
57. SUZUKI H. & ITAYA T. 1994. Accretionary complexes of the Kurosegawa, Northern Chichibu and Sanbagawa Belts in the Kamikatsu Town area (Shikoku), Southwest Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 100, 585-99 (in Japanese with English abstract).
58. TAIRA A. 1981. Formation process of the Shimanto Belt. Kagaku (Science) 51, 516-23 (in Japanese).
59. TAIRA A., TOKUYAMA H. & SOH W. 1989. Accretion tectonics and evolution of Japan. In Ben-Abraham Z. ed. The Evolution of the Pacific Margins, pp. 100-23. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
60. TAKAMI M., ISOZAKI Y., NISHIMURA Y. & ITAYA T. 1990. Geochronology of weakly metamorposed Jurassic accretionary complex (the Kuga Group) in eastern Yamaguchi Prefecture, Southwest Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 96, 669-81 (in Japanese with English abstract).
61. TAKAMI M., ISOZAKI Y., NISHIMURA Y. & ITAYA T. 1993. Effect of detrital white mica and contact metamorphism to K-Ar dating of weakly metamorphosed accretionary complex: An example of Jurassic accretionary complex in eastern Yamaguchi Prefecture, Southwest Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 99, 545-63 (in Japanese with English abstract).
62. TAKATA M. 1987. Reexamination of the Jurassic complex (Kuga Group) in eastern Yamaguchi Prefecture, Southwest Japan: Discrimination of the two geologic units and its implication. In Nishimura Y. ed. High-P/T metamorphic Belt in the Inner Zone of Southwest Japan no. 4, pp. 27-37. Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi (in Japanese).
63. TAKATA M. & ISOZAKI Y. 1986. Occurrence of Jurassic radiolarians from the 'Mikawa Group' in eastern Yamaguchi Prefecture. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 92, 447-50 (in Japanese).
64. TOYOHARA F. 1974. On the age of the Kuga group and the Ryoke metamorphic rocks in eastern Yamaguchi Prefecture. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 80, 51-3 (in Japanese).
65. TOYOHARA F. 1976. Geologic structure from Sangun-Yamaguchi zone to 'Ryoke zone' in eastern Yamaguchi Prefecture. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 82, 99-111 (in Japanese with English abstract).
66. TOYOHARA F. 1977. Early Mesozoic tectonic development of the northwestern Chichibu geosyncline in west Chugoku, Japan. Journal of the Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo, Section II 19, 253-334.
67. UJIIÉ H. & NISHIMURA Y. 1992. Transect of the central and southern Ryukyu Island Arcs. In 29th IGC Field Trip Guide Book 5, pp. 337-61. Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba.
68. WAKITA K. 1988. Origin of chaotically mixed rock bodies in the Early Jurassic to Early Cretaceous sedimentary complex of the Mino terrane, central Japan. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Japan 39, 675-757.
69. YAMAMOTO H. 1985. Geology of the late Paleozoic-Mesozoic sedimentary complex of the Mino Terrane in the southern Neo area, Gifu Prefecture and the Mt. Ibuki area, Shiga Prefecture, central Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 91, 353-69 (in Japanese with English abstract).
70. YAMATO OMINE RESEARCH GROUP 1981. Paleozoic and Mesozoic System in the central area of the Ku Mountains, southwest Japan. Guide book for the excursion, 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Geological Collaboration in Japan. Association for the Geological Collaboration in Japan, Tokyo (in Japanese).
71. YAO A. 1982. Middle Triassic to Early Jurassic radiolarians from the Inuyama area, central Japan. Journal of Geosciences, Osaka City University 25, 53-70.
72. YAO A. 1990. Triassic and Jurassic radiolarians. In Ichikawa K., Mizutani S., Hara L, Hada S. & Yao A. eds. Pre-Cretaceous Terranes of Japan, Publication of IGCP Project No. 224: Pre-Jurassic Evolution of Eastern Asia, pp. 329-45. Nippon-insatsu, Osaka,
73. YAO A., MATSUDA T. & ISOZAKI Y. 1980. Triassic and Jurassic radiolarians from the Inuyama area, central Japan. Journal of Geosciences, Osaka City University 23, 135-54.
74. YAO A., MATSUOKA A. & NAKATANI T. 1982. Triassic and Jurassic radiolarian assemblages in Southwest Japan. News of Osaka Micropaleontologists, Special Volume 5, 27-43 (in Japanese with English abstract).