Subduction of the Daiichi Kashima Seamount in the Japan trench
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Abstract
In 1984-1985, the Kaiko consortium collected Seabeam, single-channel seismic and submersible sampling data in the vicinity of the Daiichi-Kashima seamount and the southern Japan trench. We performed a prestack migration of a Shell multichannel seismic profile, that crosses this area, and examined it in the light of this unusually diverse Kaiko dataset. Unlike the frontal structure of the northern Japan trench, where mass-wasting appears to be the dominant tectonic process, the margin in front of the Daiichi-Kashima shows indentation, imbrication, uplift and erosion. Emplacement of the front one-third of the seamount beneath the margin front occurs without accretion. We conclude that the Daiichi-Kashima seamount exemplifies an intermediate stage between the initial collision and subduction of a seamount at a continental margin.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Subduction of the Daiichi Kashima Seamount in the Japan trench |
| Series title | Tectonophysics |
| DOI | 10.1016/0040-1951(89)90393-4 |
| Volume | 160 |
| Issue | 1-4 |
| Year Published | 1989 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Description | 11 p. |
| First page | 237 |
| Last page | 247 |
| Country | Japan |
| Other Geospatial | Daiichi Kashima |