Fracture zone structure of the Atera Fault in Kawaue, Nakatsugawa city, Gifu prefecture

Niwa, Masakazu   ; Nohara, Tsuyoshi   ; Mizuochi, Yukihiro*; Tanase, Atsushi*; Kobayashi, Hirohisa*

The Atera Fault in the eastern part of Gifu Prefecture is a NW-trend active fault and shows sinistral strike-slip displacement. A fracture zone of the Atera Fault, in which granite (Naegi-Agematsu Granite) is in fault contact with welded tuff of the Nohi Rhyolite, is exposed several tens meters in width in Kawaue, Nakatsugawa City. Detailed occurrence of the fracture zone is described in this study to examine the research method to reveal histories of active faults. In the studied fracture zone, fault rocks of the welded tuff origin consist of fault breccia and clay, while those of the granite consist of cataclasite. The fault rocks of the welded tuff origin are more clay-rich than those of the granite origin. Textures of host rocks are more well-preserved in the fault rocks of the granite origin than in those of the the welded tuff origin.