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Pathways for Escape of Magmatic Carbon Dioxide to Soil Air at Unzen Volcano, SW Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Hiroshi A Takahashi ,
Kohei Kazahaya ,
Hiroshi Shinohara  and
Toshio Nakamura
Hiroshi A Takahashi*
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, 305-8567, Japan.
Kohei Kazahaya
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, 305-8567, Japan.
Hiroshi Shinohara
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, 305-8567, Japan.
Toshio Nakamura
Affiliation:
Center for Chronological Research, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan.
*
Corresponding author. Email: h.a.takahashi@aist.go.jp.
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Estimation of the magmatic contribution to soil air at Unzen Volcano, SW Japan, was carried out using carbon isotopes, both 14C and 13C, and a mixing model of isotopic mass balance in order to assess the spatial variation of magmatic influence from the volcano. The advantage of using soil air samples is that a wide range of gas sampling sites can be selected. Magmatic CO2 contributed mostly in the eastern region from Unzen Volcano. The high magmatic contribution to soil air appeared along the Akamatsudani fault zone located southeast of the volcano. Our observations across the fault also showed remarkable peaks of CO2 concentration and δ13C values, suggesting that magmatic fluid comes up along the fracture zone as for the normal fault system of the graben.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 46 , Issue 1: Proceedings of the 18th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 2), Conference Editors: Nancy Beavan Athfield, Rodger J Sparks , 2004 , pp. 491 - 496
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Copyright © 2004 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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