著者

伊神 輝

出版者

Tokyo Geographical Society

雑誌

地学雑誌 (ISSN:0022135X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.99, no.1, pp.61-71, 1990-02-25 (Released:2010-11-18)

参考文献数

40

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Newly developed idea of the nascent plate boundary along the eastern Japan Sea has become to be discussed in the last five years. The boundary extends southwards through central Japan, where the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line (ISTL), one of the great tectonic lines in Japan, traverses to Suruga Bay. In the south of central Japan, the Philippine Sea plate is subducting under Japanese Islands, which lie on the North American plate and the Eurasia plate, and, therefore, a triple junction is formed there, if we acceptthe new idea of the plate boundary. Central Japan is, then, considered to be situated under the complex tectonic stress fields due to the plate interactions, and has the structures resulting from ongoing or past geodynamical process.Many seismic probings have been undertaken in central Japan and the derived structure will open informations on the geodynamic process and verifications of the nascent boundary. New resolution methods in seismic probing of the crust and the upper mantle can derive a three-dimensional velocity structure. The derived structure in central Japan, including ISTL, shows a low velocity body beneath the Hida mountains at the east of ISTL. However, the difference between the North American plate and the Eurasia plate has not beenresolved over the whole area along ISTL from the P-wave velocity of viewpoint. Many explosion profiles have been conducted in central Japan, some of which cross ISTL. The result at the north of ISTL shows a distinctive reverse fault dipping east near the Matsumoto Basin, though the fault location is slightly different eastwards from the geologically estimated tectonic line. The dip of the fault is concordant to that derived from the newidea of subducting the Eurasia plate under the North American plate. We cannot find other seismic profiles showing the similar structure in this area. In the southern part of ISTL, the northsouth fault is derived, which may be deformed by the plate interaction between thePhilippine Sea plate and the Eurasia plate.Unraveling a highly and widely resolved structure will be required to step forward to verify the new plate boundary hypothesis, and to put it practice, it is necessary to develop observation systems as well as the processing techniques. We address a request ofdeep seismic sounding which has controlled sources on a long-range profile with seismic waves penetrating deep into the crust and the upper mantle on a scale to discusss the new plate boundary hypothesis. Almost simultaneously, seismic tomography using natural sources, having a resolution of a three-dimensional image, will provide important information for better understanding of the geodynamical process in central Japan.