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Crustal Dynamics: Unified Understanding of Geodynamics Processes at Different Time and Length Scales

Edited by: Yoshihisa Iio, Richard H. Sibson, Toru Takeshita, Takeshi Sagiya, Bunichiro Shibazaki, Junichi Nakajima

The 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake occurred on an unexpected scale, which made us realize that the generation mechanisms of earthquakes are poorly understood. To provide a unified view of the geodynamic processes including earthquake generation processes in the Japanese arc–trench system, it is necessary to clarify the absolute values of crustal stresses, the stress–strain field, and the basic properties of the island arc crust and mantle, such as viscosity and frictional coefficients along major faults. This special issue covers all disciplines concerning the crustal dynamics of arc–trench systems and other tectonic settings: seismic and geodetic observations, geomorphology, natural and experimental rock deformation research, geofluids, and numerical simulations of crustal deformation and earthquake generation.

  2. Spatial and temporal variations in inland crustal stress prior to the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake are investigated using focal mechanism solutions for shallow seismicity in Iwaki City, Japan. The multiple in...

    Authors: Makoto Otsubo, Ayumu Miyakawa and Kazutoshi Imanishi
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2018 70:51
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  3. The Atotsugawa fault system is one of the best-known active faults in Japan. However, revealing the interseismic velocity field in and around the Atotsugawa fault system with high spatial resolution is challen...

    Authors: Youichiro Takada, Takeshi Sagiya and Takuya Nishimura
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2018 70:32
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  4. We examined the spatial relationship between seismicity and upper crustal structure in the Wakayama region, northwestern Kii Peninsula, Japan, by investigating microearthquake focal mechanisms and the local st...

    Authors: Sumire Maeda, Toru Matsuzawa, Shinji Toda, Keisuke Yoshida and Hiroshi Katao
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2018 70:21
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  6. We performed two axial deformation experiments on synthetic polycrystalline anorthite samples with a grain size of ~ 3 Î¼m and 5 vol% Si–Al-rich glass at 900 Â°C, a confining pressure of 1.0 GPa, and a strain ra...

    Authors: Jun-ichi Fukuda, Jun Muto and Hiroyuki Nagahama
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2018 70:3
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  7. Using data from high-density seismic observation networks installed in the western Nagano Prefecture region in Japan, we precisely determined focal mechanisms and estimated the high-resolution stress field at ...

    Authors: Yoshihisa Iio, Itaru Yoneda, Masayo Sawada, Tsutomu Miura, Hiroshi Katao, Yoichiro Takada, Kentaro Omura and Shigeki Horiuchi
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:144
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Earth, Planets and Space 2018 70:20

  8. Understanding the effect of the complex fault geometry on the dynamic rupture process and discriminating it from the complexity originating from the rheological properties of faults, is an essential subject in...

    Authors: Ryosuke Ando, Kazutoshi Imanishi, Yannis Panayotopoulos and Tomokazu Kobayashi
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:130
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  9. Graphite-bearing polycrystalline olivine and polycrystalline clinopyroxene with submicron to micron grain size were successfully sintered from a single crystal of naturally occurring olivine (Fo88–92Fa12–8: Mg1.7...

    Authors: Yumiko Tsubokawa and Masahiro Ishikawa
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:128
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  13. We carried out statistical evaluations of two probability density functions for the microboudin palaeopiezometer using the Akaike information criterion (AIC) and the cross-validation (CV) technique. In terms o...

    Authors: Tarojiro Matsumura, Tatsu Kuwatani and Toshiaki Masuda
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:83
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  14. We conduct a two-dimensional numerical experiment on the lower crust under an intraplate strike-slip fault based on laboratory-derived power-law rheologies considering the effects of grain size and water. To ...

    Authors: Xuelei Zhang and Takeshi Sagiya
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:82
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  15. (U–Th)/He thermochronometric analyses were performed across the southern part of the Northeast Japan Arc for reconstructing the long-term uplift and denudation history in the region. Apatite (U–Th–Sm)/He ages ...

    Authors: Shigeru Sueoka, Takahiro Tagami and Barry P. Kohn
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:79
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  16. We have analyzed the spatial variation in coda Q in the northeastern part of a high strain rate zone, the Niigata–Kobe Tectonic Zone (NKTZ), to investigate the cause of the high strain rate by correlating coda Q ...

    Authors: Masanobu Dojo and Yoshihiro Hiramatsu
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:76
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  18. In order to clarify the origin of aftershocks, we precisely analyze the hypocenters and focal mechanisms of the aftershocks following the 2000 Western Tottori Earthquake, which occurred in the western part of ...

    Authors: Yohei Yukutake and Yoshihisa Iio
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:68
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  19. The alteration and dehydration of predominantly basaltic subducting oceanic crustal material are thought to be important controls on the mechanical and hydrological properties of the seismogenic plate interfac...

    Authors: Jun Kameda, Sayako Inoue, Wataru Tanikawa, Asuka Yamaguchi, Yohei Hamada, Yoshitaka Hashimoto and Gaku Kimura
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:52
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