Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014

Session information

Oral

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

[S-GL44_2PM2] The Lower-Middle Pleistocene boundary of the Kazusa Group

Fri. May 2, 2014 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM 421 (4F)

Convener:*Makoto Okada(Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University), Chair:Makoto Okada(Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University)

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.

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

*Osamu KAZAOKA1, Makoto OKADA2, Shun KAMEYAMA1, Yusuke SUGANUMA3, Nobuyuki AIDA4, Masaaki MORISAKI1, Atsushi KAGAWA1, Hisao KUMAI5, Hisashi NIREI6 (1.Research Institute of Environmental Geology, Chiba, 2.Ibaraki University, 3.National Institute of Polar Research, 4.Shumei University, 5.Osaka City University, 6.Officer of IUGS-GEM)