Periodic variation extracted from lacustrine laminated diatomite of the middle Pleistocene Hiruzen-bara Formation, Okayama Prefecture.

与四郎, 石原; 雄一郎, 宮田

doi:10.5575/geosoc.105.461

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“…5; Research Group for Hiruzenbara, 1975a, b). The Hiruzenbara Formation consists of dammed lake deposits of the Paleo-Hiruzenbara Lake, which formed in the Hiruzenbara Highland around Marine Isotope Stage 13 (Research Group for Hiruzenbara, 1975a, b;Ishihara and Miyata, 1999). The formation consists of a lower lake deposit of varved diatomites and an upper fluvial deposit of conglomerates.…”

Section: Application To Varved Sediments Of the Middle Pleistocene Himentioning

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“…Thus, a couplet of light-and dark-green laminae indicates an annual sediment layer (Research Group for Hiruzenbara, 1975a, b;Ishihara and Miyata, 1999). Cyclicities corresponding to solar activity are found in the time series of varve thickness (Ishihara and Miyata, 1999). A varve of the Hiruzenbara Formation, annual sediment with a thickness of 2 to 3 mm, consists of a couplet of light-and dark-green laminae (Fig.…”

Section: Application To Varved Sediments Of the Middle Pleistocene Himentioning

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Application of a method for detecting lamina characteristics in sediments for time series analysis: an example using a soft X-ray image of varves from the Hiruzenbara Formation

Sasaki

Saito-Kato

Komatsubara

et al. 2015

Jour. Sed. Soc. Japan

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Varved sediments are very useful for studies attempting to clarify the high-resolution record of paleoenvironments, because they are expected to contain annual or sub-annual records of depositional environments. In order to obtain annual records such as annual thicknesses, color tones, and chemical compositions, at the very least, it is necessary to detect the boundaries of annual bands. Additionally, such detection and thickness measurements should be reproducible. The detection of boundaries and the measurement of thicknesses in varved sediments are commonly carried out by megascopic or image analyses. However, human error and difficulties in assessment of reproducibility often accompany megascopic measurements. On the other hand, photographs, soft X-ray images (X-ray radiographs), and the results of XRF mapping can be used for image analysis. Image analysis methods such as the peak detection method and wavelet analysis attempt to detect varve boundaries and measure varve number and sedimentation rate; however, some difficulties remain in these analyses, especially for recognizing varve boundaries. In addition, wavelet analysis has low resolution for detecting individual lamina boundaries, and waveform analyses such as the peak detection method are not suited for data containing high-frequency physical noise.In this study, we applied a novel method for detecting lamina boundaries, especially in varved sediments, which is described by the following procedure: (1) smooth pixel values (gray value) of the lamina image, (2) map a maximum slope point of gray value in a square-shaped moving window (W1) on the image, (3) obtain a median gray value in a linear moving window (W2) along a stratigraphical section, and (4) detect lamina boundaries using a combination of the maximum slope point and the median value. An application of the lamina identification method of this study to a soft X-ray image of varved diatomite yielded a well-defined tricolored varve image and averaged transmittance value of soft X-rays in each lamina of the varve image. The thicknesses of varved sediments obtained using the tricolored image and the transmittance value of lamina can be easily converted into time series, and applied to spectral analyses.

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Section: Application To Varved Sediments Of the Middle Pleistocene Himentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Application To Varved Sediments Of the Middle Pleistocene Himentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of a method for detecting lamina characteristics in sediments for time series analysis: an example using a soft X-ray image of varves from the Hiruzenbara Formation

Sasaki

Saito-Kato

Komatsubara

et al. 2015

Jour. Sed. Soc. Japan

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Stratigraphic variations in lacustrine sediment gravity-flow deposits intercalated in varved diatomite: An example from the Hiruzenbara Formation, Okayama Prefecture, southwest Japan

Sasaki

Saito-Kato

et al. 2016

Quaternary International

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Image processing to extract sequential profiles with high spatial resolution from the 2D map of deformed laminated patterns

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Takano

Okaniwa³

et al. 2003

Computers & Geosciences

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Periodic variation extracted from lacustrine laminated diatomite of the middle Pleistocene Hiruzen-bara Formation, Okayama Prefecture.

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Application of a method for detecting lamina characteristics in sediments for time series analysis: an example using a soft X-ray image of varves from the Hiruzenbara Formation

Application of a method for detecting lamina characteristics in sediments for time series analysis: an example using a soft X-ray image of varves from the Hiruzenbara Formation

Stratigraphic variations in lacustrine sediment gravity-flow deposits intercalated in varved diatomite: An example from the Hiruzenbara Formation, Okayama Prefecture, southwest Japan

Image processing to extract sequential profiles with high spatial resolution from the 2D map of deformed laminated patterns

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