2006 VOL.115 No.4  
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Early Proterozoic Granite during the Svecofennian Orogenisis (1.9-1.8 Ga ago) in the South Finland

 S-type granite in the Southern Finland migmatite zone. Chives are growing where bedrock is on the coast of Gulf of Finland. Kopparnäs, Inkoo.

(Photo by J. KASAHARA in July 2006; explanation by Annakaisa KORJA, Japanese translation by Junzo KASAHARA and Nobuo GESHI)
   
CONTENTS Japanese
 Original Articles
  Taro OISHI Language Maintenance of Francophones and Development of the Francophone Community in English-dominant Canadian Cities: A Case Study of the Halifax Region, Nova Scotia
431-447
Wanglin YAN Extraction of Thermal Features Using Satellite Sensed Images and Discussion of Brightness Temperature Characteristics
448-465
 Summary of the Earth Science Club Lecture
  Motohiko HAKUNO Recent Earthquake Damage
466-469
 Reports and Subsidiary Research in 2005
  Toshifumi KOMATSU, Huyen DANG TRAN and Jin-Hua CHEN Depositional Environments and Fossil Bivalves in the Lowermost Parts of the Triassic Systems in North Vietnam and South China
470-483
Toshiro NARUSE, Yukiya TANAKA, Sang-Il HWANG and Soon-Ock YOON Geomorphological Chronology of Pleistocene Terraces and Pediments used for the Loess-paleosol Sequence in Korea
484-491
Kyoji SAITO Characteristics of Icelandic Outwash Fan: for Establishment on Definition of an Alluvial Fan
492-499
Takeshi ENDOH Changes Land Use in the Tokyo Lowland during the Period from 1868 to 2005, with Special Reference to the Distribution of Factories
500-507
Hiroyasu MURAKAMI and Shunso ISHIHARA REE Mineralization by the Weathering of High REE Granitic Rocks in the Ashizuri-misaki Area and the Sanyo Belt of SW Japan, and in Jianxi Province, South China
508-515
Yuki SAWADA Palaeo-climate Reconstruction from Permafrost Ice in Block Slope
516-523
Masafumi AOYAMA Changes in the Mountain Permafrost Environment and their Effects on Geomorphic Change in the Japanese Alps, Central Japan, since the Last Glacial Maximum
524-530
Jiro KOMORI Glacial Lake Expansion and Present Situation in Hinku and Hongu Regions, Eastern Nepal and Bhutan Himalaya
531-535
Yuji MURAYAMA Annual Meeting: IGU Commission on Monitoring Cities of Tomorrow
536-539
 
Book Reviews
540-543
Memory
544-545
News
546-547
Proceedings
548-564
Announcement
565-568
 Pictorials
  1: Migmatite and Rapakivi Granite in the South Finland (Junzo KASAHARA)  
  2: Scars of the Glacial Lake Outburst Flood in Sabai Tsho, Hinku Valley, Nepal Himalaya (Jiro KOMORI)