抄録
Coal science conference of the Japanese Institute of Energy originated from a small study member for coal petrography in the Coal Technology Laboratory conducted by Dr. Asai who introduced modern coal petrographical knowledge from Germany just after the world war 2nd when domestic coal minimng became active. The author have participated in the member since 1960 when the coal minimg activity was declining and imported coking coal became subsutitutive. The lapse of 30 years have changed the domestic coal industrial and scientific background, and the author's labo. of Coal Geology has been reformed to Organic Geoscience in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences. The present main topics of our section are concentrated on available informations obtained from sedimemtary organic matters including coal and petroleum which can be correlated to traditional inorganic geological phenomena and can detect more minute and delicate signs than those in minerals or rocks. The new informations obtained from life-origin organic matters are opening up new fields of geosciences which are partly based on coal science.
