JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017

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[O-06] [JJ] Geoparks in Japan -Lesson to be learned from the failure-

Sat. May 20, 2017 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7)

convener:Noritaka Matsubara(Graduate School of Regional Resource Management, University of Hyogo)

[O06-P06] Yakumo mine and Oboko mountain - The tentative plan for "Yurappu Geopark"

*Shigeyuki Oya1, Takayuki Kato2, Shizuka Takahashi1 (1.The Association of Geopark Plan, in Yurappu, 2.Earth Science Co.Ltd)

Keywords:Geopark

Yakumo-cho is a town that has the chief industries of the dairy farming and the fishery which owns the two seas of the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Japan, being in the narrowest part in Oshima Peninsula.
Since 2012, it is doing an activity while the geopark conception preparatory meeting of the private base gets the support from Yakumo town, too.
The tentative plan for Yurappu Geopark is in the process of being selected geo-site Yakumo in the entire as its range.
This time, I want to introduce geo site to Yakumo mine and Oboko mountain.
1: When flourishing as a mine.
2: Oboko mountain nature.
3: Possibility of geothermal power generation.