Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi)
Online ISSN : 1884-0884
Print ISSN : 0022-135X
ISSN-L : 0022-135X
Volume 90, Issue 3
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  • The Tihamah Plain
    Shizuo SHINDOU, Yuhsaku TAGUTSCHI
    1981 Volume 90 Issue 3 Pages 157-177
    Published: June 25, 1981
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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    The Tihamah Plain is a coastal plain bordering on the Red Sea, located in the western part of Yemen Arab Republic. The length of the plain from north to south and the width from east to west are about 400 km and about 30 to 40 km respectively and the altitudes range 0 to 500 m.
    Most of this plain has still uncultivated like a semi-desert area because of hydrometeorologic conditions such as high temperature, small rainfall, dryness, etc., geologic conditions such as silty, sandy, sand and gravel strata, and bad conditions for water use. However, this plain has high abilities for further development.
    The purposes of this paper are to describe the physical environments in this Tihamah Plain and the actual circumstances of land and water uses which are strictly provided under such environments and recommendation for further development concerned with water in an arid region.
    This paper is summarized as follows :
    1. Geology of the Tihamah Plain is mainly Alluvium composed of silt, sand, and gravel. Alluvium strata are declining westward in about 1/300 gradient. The depths of Alluvium are considered to be about 50 m in the central part of the plain and more than 100 m in the coastal part. Main aquifer in this plain exists among these Alluvium strata.
    2. According to tritium analyses, residence time of groundwater in this plain is found to be extremely long except limited regions such as irrigation areas and those along wadi courses. Groundwater except such areas is only recharged by a great flood which happens once for several years.
    3. Remote sensing is emphasized to be a convenient method to get many available informations about groundwater occurrences through observations such as soil moisture, vegetation, land use, etc..
    4. The fact that infiltration from wadi courses and irrigation canals occurs in large quantity suggests the possibility of artificial recharge for groundwater in this plan.
    The authors propose the following systematic water use plan : that wadi water must be artificially recharged into groundwater before evaporation loss when it runs down from mountainous regions to the plain and it should be withdrawn in the lower part of the plain.
    The following effects may be expected by this plan.
    i) Avoidance of invalid runoff during flood.
    ii) Decreasing of evaporation loss.
    iii) Possibility of utilizing high quality groundwater by purification mechanism of water holding layers.
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  • Its Principles and Laboratory Procedures
    Shiro TAMANYU
    1981 Volume 90 Issue 3 Pages 178-189
    Published: June 25, 1981
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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    The purpose of this report is to outline the principles and laboratory procedures of fission track dating.
    Initial discoveries of tracks were reported by YOUNG (1958) and SILK and BARNS (1958). Since PRICE and WALKER (1962) discovered that fission tracks could be made visible in a optical microscope by chemical etching, the researches of solid state track recorder (FLEISCHER, et al., 1975) have been remarkably developed. Fission track dating method is one application of these researches. PRICE and WALKER (1962) and FLEISCHER and PRICE (1963) tried firstly fission track dating using micas and natural glasses respectively. FLEISCHER, et al. (1965) also suggested the ion explosion theory as track formation mechanism considering that the each detector has a threshold of primary ionization rate for track formation to each charged particle energy (Fig. 1, 2).
    Last 15 years fission track dating method have been grown up to the very important tools for Geochronologist. Nevertheless, the primary and technical data are little reported in most papers. NAESER, et al. (1979) offered the original proposal for standardization of fission track data. They recommended that ten column table be used (Table 1, as an example) and five items such as decay constant, neutron fluence monitor, dating technique standard error and annealing correction, should be mentioned.
    The practical procedures for fission track dating are as follows. (1) Rock sampling, (2) Rock crushing, (3) Mineral separation, (4) Mounting minerals in FEP teflon or Epoxy resin, (5) Polishing minerals, (6) Chemical etching, (7) Preparing samples for irradiation, (8) Post irradiation procedures, (8) Counting of fission tracks, (10) Statistic calculation, (11) Drawing data tables.
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  • Kazuo KURODA, Takemasa ISHII
    1981 Volume 90 Issue 3 Pages 190-202
    Published: June 25, 1981
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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  • SHI Yafeng, Li Jichun
    1981 Volume 90 Issue 3 Pages 203-209
    Published: June 25, 1981
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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  • Tatsuro MATSUMOTO, Minoru TAMURA, Hakuyu OKADA, Akio INAZUMI
    1981 Volume 90 Issue 3 Pages 210-215
    Published: June 25, 1981
    Released on J-STAGE: April 23, 2010
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  • [in Japanese]
    1981 Volume 90 Issue 3 Pages 216-217
    Published: June 25, 1981
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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    1981 Volume 90 Issue 3 Pages 217-218
    Published: June 25, 1981
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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  • K. TAKEUCHI
    1981 Volume 90 Issue 3 Pages Plate1-Plate2
    Published: June 25, 1981
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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