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[Abstracts]

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* Geologic and hydrologic background of slope failure and debris-flow disaster in Atsumari River Basin, Minamata City, Kumamoto Prefecture on July 20, 2003

Tsutomu Nakazawa, Makoto Saito and Yusaku Taguchi (113-127) [PDF : 4,251 KB]

* Estimation of barometric responses of groundwater levels at observation stations of the Geological Survey of Japan, AIST in and around the Kinki district

Yuichi Kitagawa, Naoji Koizumi, Makoto Takahashi, Norio Matsumoto,
Tsutomu Sato,Yasuto Kuwahara, Hisao Ito, Akio Cho, Takashi Satoh
and Eikichi Tsukuda (129-152) [PDF : 3,676 KB]

* Geochemistry of biogenic silica, carbonate materials and sea salts in the coastal marine sediments around the Japanese islands

Shigeru Terashima, Noboru Imai, Ken Ikehara, Hajime Katayama,
Atsushi Noda,Atsuyuki Ohta, Takashi Okai and Masumi (Ujiie) Mikoshiba
(153-169) [PDF : 1,108 KB]

* Clinopyroxenite in serpentinite melange of the “Kurosegawa Belt” in the Izumi-Tomochi area, Kumamoto Prefecture, central Kyushu

Makoto Saito, Kazuhiro Miyazaki and Hitoshi Tsukamoto (171-179) [PDF : 1,178 KB]