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Around 23 million years ago, western Japan was a coastal region of the Eurasia continent. The subducting plates, being deeper than the Eurasian plate, pulled parts of Japan which become modern Chūgoku region and Kyushu eastward, opening the Sea of Japan (simultaneously with the Sea of Okhotsk) around 15–20 million years ago, with likely freshwater lake state before the sea has rushed in. [4 ...
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This list is of the geological belts (帯, tai), the structural geotectonic units, of Japan. [1]: 178 The Geological Survey of Japan subdivides the Japanese archipelago into twenty-seven belts, [2] though these are subject to scholarly revision and local variation as to naming.
The Geological Survey of Japan (地質調査総合センター, Chishitsu chōsa sōkō sentā) (GSJ) is a research institute and department of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), an Independent Administrative Institution under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).
Per Naumann's suggestions, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce established a Geology Department in 1878, which began the process of systematically mapping the Japanese archipelago. The foundation of the Geological Survey of Japan came a year before the foundation of the equivalent United States Geological Survey in the United States.
Kenkyūsha's New Japanese-English Dictionary: 1918 ... 2003: largest and most authoritative Japanese-English dictionary, 5 editions, Kiten: 2001–2006: KDE Software Compilation's program for learning kanji Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary: 2002: Jack Halpern's Kanji-English dictionary, collated by SKIP system, also pronunciations and ...
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Also called Indianite. A mineral from the lime-rich end of the plagioclase group of minerals. Anorthites are usually silicates of calcium and aluminium occurring in some basic igneous rocks, typically those produced by the contact metamorphism of impure calcareous sediments. anticline An arched fold in which the layers usually dip away from the fold axis. Contrast syncline. aphanic Having the ...