Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi)
Online ISSN : 1884-0884
Print ISSN : 0022-135X
ISSN-L : 0022-135X
Volume 77, Issue 6
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  • Teiichi KOBAYASHI
    1968 Volume 77 Issue 6 Pages 313-328
    Published: December 25, 1968
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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    Following introductory notes (1), the Ordovician formations in the Hwangho basin and Okcheon trough (2-3), the Ordovician trilobite, cephalopod and graptolite facies of the Yangtze basin and the Tsinling axis (4), the Lungshan group in Kwantung and Kwansi and the Ordovician formations in Indochina and the Yunnan-Malayan geosyncline (4-6) are successively described. The distribution of Ordovician cephalopod faunas and the areal variation of average thickness of the Ordovician system in Eastern Asia are shown in Figures 1-3. As in the Cambrian period, the Tienshan and Himalayan geosynclines were the main routes of migration through Eurasia (7).
    Finally, it is concluded that the Tomkolian and Wanwanian series designate the base of the Ordovician system in Eastern Asia. Like the Ozarkian system the Cambrovian pulsation cannot be maintained in the Palaeozoic stratigraphy of Eastern Asia. Judging from the variation of facies and thickness, the differential movements among tectonic elements in Eastern Asia became reduced in strength from Sinian to Korean (Chosen) and from Cambrian to Ordovician (8).
    In view of the fact that the Chosen group with the Toufangian series at the top is generally overlain by the Heian (Pyeongan) group para-unconformably in the grand Hwangho basin, the epi-Toufangian Middle Palaeozoic interval was the most stable land period for the part of Asia where little influence was recognizable either of the Caledonian or Variscan orogeny. The Kwansi disturbance or the late Silurian orogeny has, however, occurred in the Tsinling range in Central China and in the Nanling range in South China, although the Triassic Akiyoshi orogeny was stronger in many places of China, Korea and Southeast Asia.
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  • Ken'ichiro TAKENAGA
    1968 Volume 77 Issue 6 Pages 329-341
    Published: December 25, 1968
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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    Notches are undoubtedly supposed to be one of the most familiar features in coral reef regions, but few studies on topography of notches have been carried out in the past.
    In the central part of Ryukyu Islands -Yoron Island, the southern coast of Okinoerabu Island, and a group of Iheya-Izena Islands -, the classification of notch profiles and the origin of notches are discussed in this paper. In these islands 139 notches were surveyed precisely, and the following results were obtained :
    (1) Each part of a notch is termed as Figure 1.
    (2) The notch profiles are classified roughly into six types, namely, A : V-shaped, B : cave-like, C : U-shaped, D : bow-shaped, F : stem-shaped, and F : stern-shaped. According to the features of the roof slope and the base slope of the notch, these types are subdivided into (a) symmetrical, (b) with a long roof slope, (c) with a long base slope, (d) without an roof slope, (e) without a base slope, and (f) deformed. Moreover, the position of the retreat point in the notch profile is taking into consideration for the classification. The doubled notches are also distinguished. In case that a retreat point is situated at the upper part of the notch profile, · mark is put at the right of upper corner of alphabetical mark. If the point is located at the lower part, mark will be put below. In case that there is a small nip at the seaward end of a foot slope, - (dash) mark are added. If the doubled notches are recognized, the upper is written “above” and the lower “below”, and both are tied by a parenthesis.
    (3) As the agencies of notch formation, the solvent action and the mechanical action would be taken up. The latter implies the wave attack, and the wearing by sand and gravel. It is difficult to explain the origin of the notch by only one agency. These two agencies are superposed complicatedly.
    (4) Generally speaking, the stronger the waves are, the smaller the depth of notches becomes (=D type). Conversely, the weaker the waves are, the larger the depth of notches becomes (=B-A type).
    (5) On the average, the retreat point is situated ca. 1 m above the base point, and the roof point is situated ca. 2 m above the base point. However, as the height of the roof accords with the upper limit where a spray of sea water falls on, it stands higher in the open sea coasts. Geological structures also affect the notch types.
    (6) In Yoron Island and its neighboring islands, the period of the formation of main notches had been over. Because, it is evident by the facts that there begin to form the nips and the lower notches at the end of a foot slope of the main notches, and that there begin to form the small lapies on the foot slope of main notches.
    (7) If the depth of notches is deepened at the rate of 1 m per 2000 years, it can be deduced that the sea level was stagnated at the stand 1 m higher than the present sea level between B. P. ca. 1000 and B. P. ca. 5000 years.
    (8) The notches as well as the benches and the beach rocks will be able to use as the indicator which shows the post-glacial sea level changes.
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    1968 Volume 77 Issue 6 Pages 342
    Published: December 25, 1968
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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    1968 Volume 77 Issue 6 Pages Plate1-Plate2
    Published: December 25, 1968
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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