Rifting Structure of Central Izu-Ogasawara (Bonin) Arc Crust: Results of Seismic Crustal Imaging - Accretionary Prisms and Convergent Margin Tectonics in the Northwest Pacific Basin - page 78

Fig. 1 Location of seismic lines IBr9 and IBr10 across the central Izu-Ogasawara arc. Black
lines indicate shot positions, red circles indicate OBS locations, dashed line indicates the
current volcanic front, and numerals indicate numbers of OBSs. Lines with arrows indicate
areas shown in Figs. 7 and 8 . Inset shows bathymetry of IBM arc and a rectangle indicating
the map area
In addition, we carried out MCS reflection surveys in 2006 and 2007. We used
the same airgun source and a 204-channel streamer, with total length of
approximately 5 km and with group interval of 25 m, installed on R/V Kairei
(Kaiho et al. 2007 ; No et al. 2008 ). We used conventional procedures for data
analysis: amplitude recovery, minimum-phase conversion, predictive deconvolu-
tion, common midpoint (CMP) sort, dip moveout, velocity analysis, normal move-
out correction, CMP stacking, and Kirchhoff time migration. The reflection
sections are of good quality, confirming shallow sedimentary structures and defor-
mation. We traced the shape of the basement bathymetry and incorporated it into
the Vp models.
All OBSs were equipped with three-component geophones (vertical and two
perpendicular horizontal components), using gimbal mechanisms and a hydro-
phone sensor. Natural frequencies of the geophones were 4.5 Hz. Our OBSs were
originally designed by Kanazawa and Shiobara ( 1994 ), and the digital recorder
with a 16-bit analog-to-digital converter was developed by Shinohara et al. ( 1993 ).
In this study, the sampling interval was 10 ms.