構造浸食作用―太平洋型造山運動論と大陸成長モデルへの新視点―

  • 山本 伸次
    東京工業大学大学院理工学研究科地球惑星科学専攻

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  • Tectonic Erosion: New Perspectives on Pacific-type Orogeny and Continental Growth Models
  • コウゾウ シンショク サヨウ タイヘイヨウガタ ゾウザン ウンドウロン ト タイリク セイチョウ モデル エ ノ シン シテン
  • New Perspectives on Pacific-type Orogeny and Continental Growth Models
  • ―太平洋型造山運動論と大陸成長モデルへの新視点―

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This is a brief review of tectonic erosion originally proposed by von Huene and Scholl (1991) who have spent most of their academic careers studying marine geophysics along the circum-Pacific subduction zone.<br> Accretionary complex is considered to be formed by trench turbidite resting on the subducting oceanic plate that accretes against a hanging wall at a shallow or deep crustal level due to off-scraping or underplating. This concept was introduced to Japan in the early 1970s and was developed in great detail to propose a new paradigm for accretionary geology that involves ocean-plate stratigraphy. Later, identification of accretionary complex on-land in Japan became the mainstream. A new idea refutes the common occurrence of an on-going accretion process forming accretionary complexes along the circum-Pacific subduction zone. Instead, the concept of tectonic erosion has emerged to explain extensive crustal thinning and subsidence as an on-going process destroying the hanging wall of an older subduction complex or even the basement of the overriding plate at more than half of the active trench.<br> During the past three decades, marine geophysicists and geologists have documented tectonic erosion as a more common process than the formation of an accretional complex in subduction zones, and supeculate that a large volume of the continental crust is subducted into the mantle at both accretionary and erosive convergent margins. A simple calculation of the amount of subducting continental material versus arc producted at the subduction zone suggests a balance, resulting in no growth of continental crust at present (e.g. Clift and Vannuchi, 2004; Scholl and von Huene, 2007). However, considering direct subduction of intra-oceanic arcs and foundering of the continental lower crust into the mantle, we must conclude there is negative growth of the continental crust on the Earth at present.

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  • 地学雑誌

    地学雑誌 119 (6), 963-998, 2010

    公益社団法人 東京地学協会

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