Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014

Session information

Oral

Symbol S (Solid Earth Sciences) » S-GL Geology

[S-GL44_2PM1] The Lower-Middle Pleistocene boundary of the Kazusa Group

Fri. May 2, 2014 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM 421 (4F)

Convener:*Makoto Okada(Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University), Chair:Yasufumi Satoguchi(Lake Biwa Museum)

The Lower-Middle Pleistocene Boundary GSSP, which is placed to be around the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary, is going to be ratified in 2015. Three candidates (Montalbano Jonic, Valde di Manche and the Chiba Section) have been proposed so far. The aim of this session is to facilitate GSSP ratification at the Chiba Section through discussion for stratigraphic, chronologic and sedimentological studies regarding with the Mid Kazusa Group.

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

*Masayuki HYODO1, Kenta TAKASAKI2, Hayato MATSUSHITA2, Ikuko KITABA1, Shigehiro KATOH3, Akihisa KITAMURA4, Makoto OKADA5 (1.Research Center for Inland Seas, Kobe University, 2.Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kobe University, 3.Division of Natural History, Hyogo Museum of Nature and Human Activities, 4.Institute of Geosciences, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, 5.Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University)