美濃帯坂祝セクションの上部トリアス系チャートから見つかったイジェクタ層の堆積年代

Stratigaraphic age of the ejecta deposit from the Sakahogi section in the Mino Terrane, Central Japan

尾上 哲治*; 佐藤 峰南*; 中村 智樹*; 初川 雄一; 大澤 崇人  ; 藤 暢輔   ; 小泉 光生 

Onoue, Tetsuji*; Sato, Honami*; Nakamura, Tomoki*; Hatsukawa, Yuichi; Osawa, Takahito; Toh, Yosuke; Koizumi, Mitsuo

上部トリアス深海堆積物中にはマイクロスフェルールや富ニッケル含有スピネルが見つかっているが、この層中にイリジウムの高度な濃度異常が見いだされた。微化石の研究よりこの地層年代を2億1500万年前と同定できた。この地層の生成年代と同時期に起きたカナダにある100キロメーターの直径を持つマニコーガンクレータからの衝突噴出物の影響に関する報告を行う。

We report that an Upper Triassic deep-sea deposit (bedded chert) in Japan, deposited within the Paleo-Pacific (Panthalassa) pelagic basin, contains microspherules, Ni-rich spinels, and iridium anomaly that are characteristic of distal impact ejecta. These indicators of extraterrestrial impact were discovered from a claystone layer in an Upper Triassic bedded chert succession of the Sakahogi section, Inuyama area, central Japan. The age of the impact-related claystone is constrained by the presence of radiolarians and conodonts. We recognized 18 radiolarian species across the claystone. The claystone layer lies between pelagic chert layers of the radiolarian zones Capnodoce-Trialatus and Trialatus robustus-Lysemelas olbia. The last occurrence of Trialatusrobustus, which indicates the Lacian (Early Norian), is a good indicator of the ejecta deposit. Capnodoce serisa and Xiphosphaerafistulata and the co-occurrence of these taxa clearly indicate the late Lacian to early Alaunian (Middle Norian) age for the examined part of the Sakahogi section. Small numbers of conodonts from the claystone include Mockina medionorica, indicating an early Alaunian age (Mockina medionorica Zone). Therefore, the Lacian-Alaunian boundary in the Sakahogi section can belocated around the Capnodoce-Trialatus and Trialatus robustus-Lysemelas olbia Zone boundary.