Paleoseismicity along the southern Kuril Trench deduced from submarine-fan turbidites

Noda, Atsushi; TuZino, Taqumi; Kanai, Yutaka; Furukawa, Ryuta; Uchida, Jun-ichi

doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2008.05.015

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“…5). These layers are referred to rapidly deposited layers (RDLs, i.e., turbidites), and are typically associated with floods, earthquakes, and terrestrial landslides, i.e., events that trigger higher sediment loads (Bird and Kirby 2006;Brown et al 2002;Noda et al 2008;Rodbell et al 1999;St-Onge et al 2004).…”

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The impact of over 100 years of wildfires on mercury levels and accumulation rates in two lakes in southern California, USA

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In southern California, USA, wildfires may be an important source of mercury (Hg) to local watersheds. Hg levels and Hg accumulation rates were investigated in dated sediment cores from two southern California lakes, Big Bear Lake and Crystal Lake, located approximately 40-km apart. Between 1895 and 2006, fires were routinely minimized or suppressed around Big Bear Lake, while fires regularly subsumed the forest surrounding Crystal Lake. Mean Hg concentrations and mean Hg accumulation rates were significantly higher in Crystal Lake sediments compared to Big Bear Lake sediments (Hg levels: Crystal Lake 220 ± 93 ng g -1 , Big Bear Lake 92 ± 26 ng g -1 ; Hg accumulation: Crystal Lake 790 ± 1,200 lg m -2 year -1 , Big Bear 240 ± 54 lg m -2 year -1 ). In Crystal Lake, the ratio between post-1965 and pre-1865 Hg concentrations was 1.1, and several spikes in Hg levels occurred between 1910 and 1985. Given the remote location of the lake, the proximity of fires, and the lack of point sources within the region, these results suggested wildfires (rather than industrial sources) were a continuous source of Hg to Crystal Lake over the last 150 years.

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The impact of over 100 years of wildfires on mercury levels and accumulation rates in two lakes in southern California, USA

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“…As for the latter, many studies have investigated the sedimentary record of lakes and continental margins to link sea bed scarps, soft‐sediment deformation, subaquatic landslides and turbidites with historical earthquake records (e.g. Sims, ; Siegenthaler et al ., ; Niemi & Ben‐Avraham, ; Chapron et al ., ; Nakajima & Kanai, ; Gràcia et al ., ; Monecke et al ., ; Guyard et al ., ; Noda et al ., ; Henkel et al ., ; Sakaguchi et al ., ). Since the pioneering work by Sims () and Kastens (), more recent studies have taken advantage of rapidly developing techniques to efficiently survey, sample and monitor marine and lacustrine sedimentary systems.…”

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Lake sediments as natural seismographs: A compiled record of Late Quaternary earthquakes in Central Switzerland and its implication for Alpine deformation

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Central Switzerland lies tectonically in an intraplate area and recurrence rates of strong earthquakes exceed the time span covered by historic chronicles. However, many lakes are present in the area that act as natural seismographs: their continuous, datable and high‐resolution sediment succession allows extension of the earthquake catalogue to pre‐historic times. This study reviews and compiles available data sets and results from more than 10 years of lacustrine palaeoseismological research in lakes of northern and Central Switzerland. The concept of using lacustrine mass‐movement event stratigraphy to identify palaeo‐earthquakes is showcased by presenting new data and results from Lake Zurich. The Late Glacial to Holocene mass‐movement units in this lake document a complex history of varying tectonic and environmental impacts. Results include sedimentary evidence of three major and three minor, simultaneously triggered basin‐wide lateral slope failure events interpreted as the fingerprints of palaeoseismic activity. A refined earthquake catalogue, which includes results from previous lake studies, reveals a non‐uniform temporal distribution of earthquakes in northern and Central Switzerland. A higher frequency of earthquakes in the Late Glacial and Late Holocene period documents two different phases of neotectonic activity; they are interpreted to be related to isostatic post‐glacial rebound and relatively recent (re‐)activation of seismogenic zones, respectively. Magnitudes and epicentre reconstructions for the largest identified earthquakes provide evidence for two possible earthquake sources: (i) a source area in the region of the Alpine or Sub‐Alpine Front due to release of accumulated north‐west/south‐east compressional stress related to an active basal thrust beneath the Aar massif; and (ii) a source area beneath the Alpine foreland due to reactivation of deep‐seated strike‐slip faults. Such activity has been repeatedly observed instrumentally, for example, during the most recent magnitude 4·2 and 3·5 earthquakes of February 2012, near Zug. The combined lacustrine record from northern and Central Switzerland indicates that at least one of these potential sources has been capable of producing magnitude 6·2 to 6·7 events in the past.

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“…arc subduction system in the Ionian Sea , the Kuril trough offshore Japan (Noda et al, 2008), the Sumatran subduction zone (Patton et al, 2013), and most recently the Japan Trench after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake (Strasser et al, 2013). The relationship between sedimentation events and earthquakes has also been investigated along transform plate boundaries, such as the North Anatolian fault beneath the Marmara Sea (Sari and Çağatay 2006;McHugh et al, 2006McHugh et al, , 2014Beck et al, 2007;Drab et al, 2012;Çağatay et al, 2012;Eris et al, 2012), the El Pilar fault in the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela (Thunell et al, 1999), the Alpine strike-slip fault in New Zealand (Barnes et al, 2013), and the EPGF offshore Haiti (Hornbach et al, 2010;McHugh et al, 2011a).…”

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Submarine Paleoseismology Along Populated Transform Boundaries: The Enriquillo-Plantain-Garden Fault, Canal du Sud, Haiti, and the North Anatolian Fault, Marmara Sea, Turkey

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Paleoseismicity along the southern Kuril Trench deduced from submarine-fan turbidites

Cited by 50 publications

References 87 publications

The impact of over 100 years of wildfires on mercury levels and accumulation rates in two lakes in southern California, USA

The impact of over 100 years of wildfires on mercury levels and accumulation rates in two lakes in southern California, USA

Lake sediments as natural seismographs: A compiled record of Late Quaternary earthquakes in Central Switzerland and its implication for Alpine deformation

Submarine Paleoseismology Along Populated Transform Boundaries: The Enriquillo-Plantain-Garden Fault, Canal du Sud, Haiti, and the North Anatolian Fault, Marmara Sea, Turkey

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