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[Abstracts]

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* Chemical characteristics of the Tanakami Granite, Kinki district
- particularly important role of the radioactive and REE components -

Shunso Ishihara, Satoshi Nakano and Shigeru Terashima (93-98) [PDF : 756 KB]

* Seasonal change of chemical composition of water-insoluble components in aerosol particles collected in Tsukuba from February 2001 to June 2002

Atsuyuki Ohta, Shigeru Terashima, Yutaka Kanai, Hikari Kamioka, Noboru Imai, Yukihiro Matsuhisa, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yoshio Takahashi, Kenji Kai, Masahiko Hayashi and Renjian Zhang (99-116) [PDF : 2,337 KB]

* Source disversity of the older and early Mesozoic granitoids in the Hida Belt, central Japan

Shunso Ishihara (117-126) [PDF : 1,451 KB]

* Proboscidean footprint fossils from the Lower Pleistocene Okui Formation on the river bed of Chikuma River, Saku Basin, Nagano Prefecture, Central Japan

Hideaki Nagamori, Hiroaki Yoshikawa, Koji Hatakeyama, Masumi Terao and Tomotaka Tanabe (127-135) [PDF : 1,054 KB]

* Research history of the Seba region in the Sambagawa metamorphic belt, central Shikoku, with special focus on its field-geological aspect

Mutsuki Aoya (137-146) [PDF : 1,446 KB]

* Summary of safety and regulatory control in the proposed HLW repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA

Tetsuichi Takagi (147-157) [PDF : 1,409 KB]

* Abstracts of the 4th annual meeting of Active Fault Research Center

(159-166) [PDF : 432 KB]