2002 VOL.111 No.5
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カリフォルニア州デスバレー,ストーブパイプウエルズの砂丘

Sand Dune at Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley, California

 新生代第三紀に北米大陸西部の大陸地殻が東西に伸長されるテクトニクス(rifting)が始まった.その結果,南北方向の正断層系が発達し,細長く伸びた山地と盆地の繰り返す特徴的な地形をもつベーズンアンドレインジ(Basin and Range)地域ができた.
カリフォルニア/ネバダ州境界に位置するデスバレー国立公園はベーズンアンドレインジ地域の南部にあたり,強い乾燥気候で特徴付けられる.盆地内では地形に沿って主に南北方向の風が流れるが,盆地と枝谷との会合部などの地形の変曲点には,しばしば砂丘が形成される.
写真中央の砂丘は,ストーブパイプウエルズ付近では最大級の例で(高さ約30m),複数の尾根をもつ星形の形態をなす.遠方にみえる山地は,フューネラル山地(Funeral Mountains)で,原生代の変成岩・堆積岩や第三紀の火山岩などから構成される.正断層によってつくられた,盆地の底と山地頂部との標高差は,1500m以上に及ぶ

(磯崎行雄 Yukio ISOZAKI)

CONTENTS   Japanese
Review Article
  Yoshihisa HIROKI Large-scale Gravelly Foreset Beds:A Gravelly Spit-Offshore Gravel Bar Model
609-625
Original Articles
  Makiko WATANABE, Tomoaki NOZAWA, Mamoru HOSONO and Kumiko AOKI Properties and Forming Environment of Humic Acid Pg in the Shimosueyoshi Buried Humic Layer at Oiso Hill, Central Japan
626-639
Atsushi GOTO Changes in Pressure, Temperature and Fluid Composition during the Sanbagawa Metamorphism Estimated by Grossular Zoning of Garnet in Pelitic Schists
640-660
Michio MORINO, Atsumasa OKADA, Takashi NAKATA, Koji MATSUNAMI, Masayoshi KUSAKA, Akihiro MURATA, Kiyohide MIZUNO, Tadatoshi NOUMI, Emi TANINOMIYA, Saori IKEDA, Takafumi YOSHIDA, and Ikuo HARA Latest Rupture Event of the Mino Fault, the Median Tectonic Line Active Fault System, in East Shikoku, Southwest Japan
661-683
Ayano OTA, Yukio ISOZAKI and Hodaka KAWAHATA Secular Change in Stable Carbon Isotope Ratio across the Middle/Upper Permian Boundary in Paleo- atoll Limestone in Kyushu, Japan
684-694
Wanglin YAN and Takehiko MIKAMI Relationship between Surface Temperature from Landsat TM Thermal Images and Air Temperature Observed on the Ground
695-710
Keiichiro YOSHIDA, Yoshihiro IIJIMA, Hirokazu IWASHITA and Shuichi OKA Hydroclimatic Conditions in Subtropical Dry Scrub on Chichi-jima Island, the Ogasawara(Bonin)Islands
711-725
Hiroaki TAKAHARA and Jun MATSUMOTO Climatological Study of Precipitation Distribution in Yaku-shima Island, Southern Japan
726-746
Heitaro KANEDA, Keiji TAKEMURA and Masaaki KANEHARA Pit Excavation on a Mountain Slope as a Paleoseismic Investigation: A Case Study on the Daguchi Fault, Southwest Japan
747-758
Short Article
  Mitsuko WATANABE Digitization of the CORONA Satellite Photograph Positive Films and its Availability: In the Case of the Active Faults and the Historical Ruins of the Turpan Basin, Northwest China
759-773
 
Book Reviews
774-775
News
776-779
Summary of the Earth Science Club Lecture
   Ryozo TATEHIRA Construction and Operation of Mt. Fuji Weather Radar
780-782
Shizuo YOSHIDA Basic Concept for Geological Disposal of High-level Radioactive Wastes
783-786
 
Memory   Late Professor Tadashi MACHIDA (Kazuko URUSHIBARA)
787
Proceedings
788-795
Announcement
796
Pictorials
1
Measuring Urban Heat Island in Tokyo Using Landsat TM Thermal Image
              (Wanglin YAN and Takehiko MIKAMI)
 
2
Hydroclimatic Conditions in Subtropical Dry Scrub on Chichi-jima Island, the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands (Keiichiro YOSHIDA, Yoshihiro IIJIMA, Hirokazu IWASHITA and Shuichi OKA)