Thermochronology of hydrothermal alteration zones in the Kii Peninsula, southwest Japan; An Attempt for detecting the thermal anomalies and implications to the regional exhumation history

西南日本紀伊半島の熱水変質帯の熱年代学; 熱異常検出の試みと広域的削剥史への意義

末岡 茂   ; 岩野 英樹*; 檀原 徹*; 丹羽 正和   ; 菅野 瑞穂; Kohn, B. P.*; 川村 淳; 横山 立憲   ; 鏡味 沙耶   ; 小北 康弘  ; 平田 岳史*

Sueoka, Shigeru; Iwano, Hideki*; Danhara, Toru*; Niwa, Masakazu; Kanno, Mizuho; Kohn, B. P.*; Kawamura, Makoto; Yokoyama, Tatsunori; Kagami, Saya; Ogita, Yasuhiro; Hirata, Takafumi*

紀伊半島本宮地域の熱水変質帯を対象に、熱水活動による母岩への熱影響を評価するため、熱年代解析と流体包有物解析を実施した。流体包有物解析の結果、約150Cと約200Cの熱水活動が認定された。一方、熱年代解析の結果では、いずれの熱年代計でも、熱水脈からの距離に応じた年代の系統的な変化は観察されなかった。すなわち、熱水活動に伴う熱以上は検出できなかった。これらの熱年代は、中期中新世以降の山地隆起に伴う広域的な削剥史を反映していると解釈された。

Fluid-inclusion and thermochronometric analyses have been applied to hydrothermal alteration zones and their host rocks outcropping in the Hongu area of the Kii Peninsula, southwestern Japan in an attempt to detect thermal anomalies related to hydrothermal events and quantify the thermal effects on the host rocks. Hydrothermal events at ca 150 deg. C and ca 200 deg. C were identified by fluid-inclusion microthermometry of quartz veins in the alteration zones. For the host rocks and alteration zones, in the youngest population zircon yielded U-Pb dates ranging between ca 74.7-59.2 Ma, fission-track dates of ca 27.2-16.6 Ma, and (U-Th)/He single-grain dates of ca 23.6-8.7 Ma. Apatite yielded pooled fission-track ages of ca 14.9-9.0 Ma. The zircon U-Pb dates constrain the maximum depositional ages of the sedimentary samples. However, the fission-track and (U-Th)/He dates show no clear trend as a function of distance from the alteration zones. Hence, no thermal anomaly was detected in the surrounding host rocks based on the thermochronometric data patterns. The fission-track and (U-Th)/He dates are rather thought to record regional thermal and exhumation histories rather than a direct thermal imprint of fluid flow, probably because the duration of such activity was too short or because fluid flow occurred before regional cooling events and were later thermally overprinted. Apatite fission-track ages of ca 10 Ma may reflect regional mountain uplift and exhumation related to the obduction of the SW Japan lithospheric sliver onto the Shikoku Basin, or the rapid subduction of the Philippine Sea slab associated with the clockwise rotation of the Southwest Japan Arc.