Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014

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Symbol M (Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary) » M-IS Intersection

[M-IS35_30PM2] Geopark

Wed. Apr 30, 2014 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM 211 (2F)

Convener:*Kuniyasu Mokudai(Pro Natura Foundation Japan), Takayuki Arima(Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University), Marekazu Ohno(Unzen Volcanic Area Geopark Promotion Council), Yoshihiro Hiramatsu(School of Natural System, College of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University), Takayuki Ogata(Faculty of Education, University of the Ryukyus), Mahito Watanabe(Institute of Geology and Geoinformation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Chair:Kuniyasu Mokudai(Pro Natura Foundation Japan)

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

[MIS35-P09_PG] Mt. Apoi Geopark telling a global dynamic movement of the earth

3-min talk in an oral session

*Kiyoaki NIIDA1, Promoting council MT. APOI GEOPARK2 (1.Hokkaido Univ. Museum, 2.Samani)

Keywords:Mt. Apoi geopark, peridotite, upper mantle, basaltic magma, plate boundary, global dynamic movement

Mt. Apoi geopark is located at the southwestern end of the Hidaka mountains, facing to the Pacific southward. Recently, a tectonic map showing a distribution of major plates in the northern hemisphere and suggesting a global sense of plate motion between the North American plate and the Eurasian plate was published. This map gives an easy understanding on a background of the Hidaka mountain building and a simultaneous interpretation on a global dynamic movement of the earth.We have an excellent example of global mobile belt of the earth, which is the Tethys ophiolite belt from the European Alps ~ Greek ~ Turkey ~ Iran ~ Oman ~ Pakistan ~ Indus Suture ~ Andaman ~ Great Sunda toward the east, including the continent-continent collisions between Africa and Europe, and India and Asia. Also, we have an above example of active tectonic event such as the Hidaka mountain building, here in Mt. Apoi geopark, Hokkaido, Japan.