*Madhusoodhan SATISH-KUMAR¹, Naho OTSUJI², Atsushi KAMEI³, Eiichi TAKAZAWA¹, Noriyoshi TSUCHIYA⁴, Geoffrey GRANTHAM⁵, Masahiro ISHIKAWA⁶, Tetsuo KAWAKAMI⁷, Yasuhito OSANAI⁸ (1.Department of Geology, Niigata University, 2-8050 Ikarashi, Nishi-ku, Niigata 950-2181, Japan, 2.Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Japan, 3.Department of Geosciences, Shimane University, Matsue, 690-8504, Japan, 4.Department of Geoscience and Technology, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan, 5.Council for Geoscience, P/Bag X112, Pretoria, South Africa, 6.Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Kyoto University, Japan, 7.Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokahama National University, Japan, 8.Division of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan)