Reconstruction of the deformation history of an active fault; Implications from the Atera fault, Central Japan

Zwingmann, H.*; Niwa, Masakazu   ; Todd, A.*; Saunders, M.*

Atera fault zone clay gouges were collected for age dating from a river section near Kawaue, Nakatsugawa city, central Japan and the results integrated within its complex geological history. The results from the Atera Fault form an internally consistent data set with constraints from existing geochronological data (AFTA, ZFTA, CHIME) and demonstrate the application of gouge dating in providing new data to constrain timing of brittle deformation in Central Japan.