Awards 2006

The Geological Society of Japan Prize

Asahiko Taira (JAMSTEC)
Research theme: Creating jumping board of the Japanese geology: From testable studies on the accretionary complex to the promotion of the ocean floor geosciences

The Geological Society of Japan Sakuyama Masanori Award

Tatsuki Tsujimori (Kanazawa Univ.)
Research theme: Geological and petrological studies on the low-temperature, high-pressure metamorphic belts and serpentine melanges

The Geological Society of Japan Best Paper Award

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Takashi Tsuji (JAPEX Research Center), Yuichiro Miyata (Yamaguchi Univ.), Makoto Okada (Ibaraki Univ.), Isao Mita (Nihon Tennen Gas Co. Ltd.), Hiroshi Nakagawa (Geowindow Co. Ltd.), Yuri Sato (Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers) and Masaru Nakamizu (Japan Oil, Gas and Metal National Corp.)
Awarded paper: Tsuji, T., Miyata, Y., Okada, M., Mita, I., Nakagawa, H., Sato, Y and Nakamizu, M. (2005) High-resolution chronology of the lower Pleistocene Otadai and Umegase Formations of the Kazusa Group, Boso Peninsula, central Japan: Chronostratigraphy of the JNOC TR- cores based on oxygen isotope, magnetostratigraphy and calcareous nannofossil. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 111(1), 1-20. (in Japanese with English abstract)

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Yoshiro Ishihara (Fukuoka Univ.) and Shuichi Tokuhashi (Geol. Surv. Japan, AIST)
Awarded paper: Ishihara, Y. and Tokuhashi, S. (2005) Depositional process of the Pliocene Anno Formation, the uppermost part of the Awa Group, Boso Peninsula, central Japan: A case study on a turbidite depositional system of a forearc-basin filling. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 111, 269-285. (in Japanese with English abstract)

The Geological Society of Japan Young Scientist Award

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Yusuke Soda (Waseda Univ.)
Awarded paper: Soda, Y. and Takagi, H. (2004) Mineral chemistry of ultramafic rocks associated with the Asaji metamorphic rocks, eastern Kyushu. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 110, 698-714. (in Japanese with English abstract)

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Ken-ichi Yasue (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Awarded paper: Yasue, K., Hirouchi, D., Nakano, T., Sakai, H., Okumura, K. and Umitsu, M. (2005) Relationship between the tectonic relief and the subsurface geological structure related to strike-slip displacement: a case of the en échelon faults. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 111, 29-38. (in Japanese with English abstract)

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Kiyokazu Kawajiri (Sagamihara City Museum)
Awarded paper: Kawajiri, K. (2005) Petrology of gabbroic rocks in the Hida Gaien belt in the northern part of Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 111, 332-349. (in Japanese with English abstract)

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Kazuyuki Yamamoto (Tohoku Univ.)
Awarded paper: Yamamoto, K., Iryu, Y., Sato, T. and Abe, E. (2005) Stratigraphy of the Ryukyu Group on northern Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa-jima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 111, 527-546. (in Japanese with English abstract)

The Geological Society of Japan Koto Award

Takayuki Uchino (Hokkaido Univ.), Toshiyuki Kurihara (Niigata Univ.) and Makoto Kawamura (Hokkaido Univ.)
Awarded short paper: Uchino, T.,Kurihara, T. and Kawamura, M. (2005) Early Carboniferous radiolarians discovered from Hayachine Terrane, Northeast Japan: the oldest fossil ag for clastic rocks of accretionary complex in Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 111, 249-252 (in Japanese with Englis abstract)