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The Mugi Melange located in western Shikoku of the Shimanto Belt shows systematic Y-P deformation fabrics formed by microshear and pressure solution that penetrate throughout the melange pile. Magnetic susceptibility ellipsoids obtained from the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) are highly oblate. Maximum and minimum axes of the ellipsoids are consistent with the shear orientation of the melange and the mean pole of P surfaces, respectively. This agreement suggests that the Mugi Melange was formed as a result of underthrusting of trench filling sediment. Vitrinite reflectance ranges from 2.52% to 3.08%, which corresponds to a maximum paleotemperature of similar to 180-200 degrees C. Pseudotachylyte, evidence of a seismogenic slip, was found in the upper boundary roof fault of the Mugi Melange. However, there is not a thermal gap between the melange and the overlying coherent piles, and the temperature from vitrinite reflectance gradually rises downward from the coherent piles to the melange beyond the boundary fault, which suggests that paleoisotherms parallel the boundary fault orientation. The isotherms in the seismogenic zone are estimated as subparallel to the plate boundary decollement. Therefore the setting of the cataclastic boundary fault, which includes pseudotachylyte, appears to be a major plate boundary thrust or a subhorizontal splay fault. A probable geologic setting that accounts for the Mugi Melange and the seismogenic roof fault is partitioning of the slip along the plate boundary fault in space and time: interseismic slip in the melange and seismic slip along the roof fault.
- 出版日期2005-10-26
