Hardened foliated fault gouge from the Nojima Fault zone at Hirabayashi Evidence for earthquake lightning accompanying the 1995 Kobe earthquake?

被引:8
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作者
Enomoto, Y
Asuke, F
Zheng, Z
Ishigaki, H
机构
[1] Sogokaihatu Co Ltd, Edogawa Ku, Tokyo, Japan
[2] Mech Engn Lab, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[3] Himeji Inst Technol, Fac Engn, Himeji, Hyogo 67122, Japan
关键词
earthquake lightning; Kobe earthquake; natural remanant magnetization; Nojima Fault;
D O I
10.1046/j.1440-1738.2001.00343.x
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
Two anomalous features were found in the Nojima Fault zone at Hirabayashi in Awaji Island, south-west Japan: (i) hard foliated gouge between weathered granitic fault breccia and weakly consolidated mudstone of the Osaka Group; and (ii) mudstone near the gouge showing anomalous magnetization behavior. Roots of herbaceous vegetation near the foliated gouge were extraordinarily charred. In order to understand the nature of the gouge, shallow drillings were made to a depth of 3-14 m across the fault zone. Various physicochemical measurements of the gouge at depths and charred roots of herbaceous vegetation were conducted. The main results were: (i) Using electron spin resonance (ESR) analysis, the carbon radical peak (g = 2.006) of the charred roots was found to be 25 times larger than that of the non-charred roots of the same vegetation taken near the fault, indicating that the charred roots were subjected to baking; (ii) the hard foliated gouge clearly showed a lamellar structure consisting alternately of gray and black layers; (iii) the black layers in most of the foliated gouge showed flow structures almost parallel to the fault, but the gray layers rarely showed flow patterns; (iv) natural remanent magnetization (NRM) of the foliated gouge was 430 times greater than that of the granitic fault breccia and approximately 70 times greater than that of the mudstone; (v) the NRM intensity of the mudstone near the fault was highest near the ground level and decreased as the depth increased, although the magnetic susceptibility of the mudstone was almost constant and independent of depth; (vi) the high-coercivity magnetization component vectors of both the mudstone and the foliated gouge in a Schmidt equal-area projection was quite different from that of the present direction of the Earth's field; and (vii) using a magnetic force microscope, intense magnetic force lines were found in the black parts of the foliated gouge. It is suggested that these anomalies were possibly caused by earthquake lightning that accompanied the 1995 Kobe earthquake. In a spark plasma sintering test, which was conducted to simulate the possibility of earthquake lightning-induced sintering of the gouge, weakly altered gouge was successfully sintered within 10 s. The hardness of sintered sample was comparable to that of the hard foliated gouge.
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