Kyushu, Japan

The coupled precipitation kinetics-fluid flow model was applied to the distribution of Si02 content and K2O content of the hydrothermally altered andesite in the Hishikari Au-Ag mine area, south Kyushu, Japan by Shikazono et al. (2002). This will be described in section 1.4.6. 

Etoh, J., Taguchi, S. and Izawa, E. (2001) Gas compositions in fluid inclusions from the Hishikari epithermal gold deposit, southern Kyushu, Japan. Proceedings of International Symposium on Gold and Hydrothermal Systems, pp. 99-104. 

Ishihara, S., Sakamaki, Y., Sasaki, A., Teraoka, Y. and Terashima, S. (1986) Role of the basement in the genesis of the Hishikari gold-quartz vein deposit, southern Kyushu. Japan. Mining Geology, 36, 495-510. 

Izawa, E. and Urashima, Y. (1989) Quaternary gold mineralization and its environments in Kyushu, Japan. Econ. Geol. Mon., 6, 233-241. 

Matsuhisa, Y. and Aoki, M. (1994) Temperature and oxygen isotope variations during formation of the Hishikari gold-silver veins, southern Kyushu, Japan. Econ. Geol., 89, 1608-1613. 

Matsuhisa, Y., Morishita, Y. and Sato, T. (1985) Oxygen and carbon isotope variations in gold-bearing hydrothermal veins in the Kushikino mining area. Southern Kyushu, Japan. Econ. Geol, 80, 283-293. 

Morishita, Y. (1993) Carbon and oxygen isotopic characteristics of epithermal veins in the Hokusatsu gold district, southern Kyushu, Japan. Resource Geology Special Issue, 14, 103-114. 

Morishita, Y. and Takeno, N. (1993) Gold mineralization in the Noya geothermal area, Ohita-ken, Kyushu, Japan. Resource Geology, 43, 173-186. 

Nagayama, T. (1992) The precipitation sequence of the Hishikari vein deposits, Kyushu, Japan. Unpub. Masters Thesis, U. Tokyo. 

Oki, M. and Hayasaka, S. (1978) Geological study on Kagoshima Bay, South Kyushu, Japan, part IV A note on the peculiar mode of occurrence of foraminifers of the bay-head area. Rept. Fac. Set Kagoshima U., Earth Sci. Biol, 11, 1-11. 

Shikazono, N., Yonekawa, N. and Karakizawa, T. (2002) Mass transfer, oxygen isotope, and gold precipitation in epithermal gold system A case study of the Hishikari deposit, southern Kyushu Japan. Resource Geology, 52, 211-222. 

The Fushime geothermal area is located at the southeastern part of the Satsuma Peninsula, Kyushu, Japan. 

Fig. 2.36. Tectonic setting of Kyushu, Japan, showing location of (north) Hishikari and Nansatsu (south) deposits in Kirishima arc. Triangle volcanoes younger than Middle Pleistocene stipple accretionary prism of Cretaceous and Tertiary age W-B zone isobath of deep Wadati-Benioff seismic zone MTL Median Tectonic Line BTL Butsuzo Tectonic Line K-P Ridge Kyushu-Palau Ridge (Mitchell and Leach, 1991).

Akaku, K., Reed, M.H., Yagi, M., Kai, K. and Yasuda, Y. (1991) Chemical and physical processes occurring in Fushime geothermal system, Kyushu, Japan. Geochem. J., 25, 315-333. 

Kamata, H. and Watanabe, K. (1985) Comparison and examination of K-Ar age and fission track age of the volcanic rocks in central-north Kyushu, Japan. The age when the volcano-tectonic depression was initially formed. Assoc. Mineral Petrol Econ. Geologists, 80, 263-271 (in Japanese with English abst.). 

Yagi, M. (1990) Hydrothermal alteration of the Fushime geothermal field, Kyushu, Japan — Distribution of potassium and rubidium. Research Reports, Japex Research Center, 6, 74-103 (in Japanese). 

Yagi, M. and Kai, K. (1990) Hydrothermal alteration in the Fushime geothermal field Kyushu, Japan. Twelfth N. 2. Geothermal Workshop, University of Auckland, 31-33. 

Yoshimura, Y., Yanagimoto, Y. and Nakagome, O. (1988) Fushime geothermal field, southern Kyushu, Japan. In Geothermal Fields and Geothermal Power Plants in Japan. Int. Symp. Geothermal Energy, Kumamoto and Beppu, Japan, November 10-14 pp. 137-144. 

Figure 9. Plots of Li and radiogenic isotopes for mantle rocks, (a) 5 Li vs. Sr/ Sr (b) 5 Li vs. Nd/ Nd (c) "Sr/ Sr vs. Pb/ Pb (d) 5"Li vs. Pb/ Pb (Nishio et al. 2003, 2004). Symbols + = south Pacific island basalts (six islands) O = Iherzolite xenolith, Bullenmerri, Australia = Iherzolite xenolith, Sikhote-Alin, Russia (three localities) A = dunite-peridotite-pyroxenite xenolith, Kyushu, Japan (two localities) V = Iherzolite xenolith, Ichinomegata, Japan. The ocean island data are from bulk rocks, the xenolith data are clinopyroxene separates. For explanations of the derivation of radiogenic isotope fields (DM, EMI, EM2, HIMU), see Zindler and Hart (1986). The estimate for Li isotopes in DM is based on MORE. The Li isotopic ranges for the other mantle reservoirs are based on Nishio et al. (2004) and Nishio et al. (2003), but these will require further examination (hence the use of question marks).

Matsuda, K., Shimada, K. Kiyota, Y. 2000. Development of study methods for clarifying formation mechanism and distribution of acid geothermal-fluid. Case studies of geothermal areas in Kyushu, Japan. In Proceedings World Geothermal Congress 2000, Kyushu-Tohoku, Japan, 28 May-10 June 2000, 1425-1430. 

Nedachi M (1980) Chlorine and Fluorine Contents of Rock-Forming Minerals of the Neogene Granitic Rocks in Kyushu, Japan. Mining Society Special Issue No. 8 39... 

BNL, Halliburton Energy Services, and Unocal Corp. have developed cements suitable for geothermal wells with this formulation [11]. The brand name of this cement is ThermaLock. This cement was tested successfully in Unocal s geothermal well in Sumatra, Indonesia, and its first use has been reported by Japan Petroleum Exploration Company for completion of geothermal wells in Kyushu, Japan. 

Kono, S. et al. A case-control study of gastric cancer and diet in northern Kyushu, Japan, Jpn. J. Cancer Res., 79, 1067, 1988. 

Prototype maglevs have been built by Japan Railways and by Japan Air Lines, but the most interesting is a streamlined 72-foot, 17-ton test vehicle that operates regularly over a 4-mile track 30 miles north of Miyazaki, on Kyushu, Japan s southern island. Operated from a control room at one end of the roadbed—there is no engineer aboard—it carries forty-four passengers and can reach 260 miles per hour. (It was an unmanned version that hit the 321-mph world speed record in 1979.)... 

T. Tomiyasu, M. Okada, R. Imura, and H. Sakamoto, Vertical Variations in the Concentration of Mercury in Soils Around Sakurajima Volcano, Southern Kyushu, Japan, Sci. Total Environ. 304(1-3), 221-230, Mar. 20 (2003). 

More recently, the concentration of Tc in coastal seawater samples collected 1993 in Fukuoka (Kyushu) Japan was determined by ICP-MS. Tc was enriched by coprecipitation on iron hydrated oxide and separated from impurities by solvent extraction and ion exchange techniques. The Tc concentrations found were only 1-7, uBql. The activity ratio of Tc/ - Cs was 2.7 10", which is very close to the value expected for fallout from nuclear tests [79]. 

One of the earhest and most extensively documented cases of mercury poisoning occurred in the 1950s at Minamata Bay, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan - especially among fishermen and their famihes. Deaths and congenital birth defects in humans were attributed to long-term ingestion of marine fish and... 

Seventh Field Workshopon Volcanic Gases Satsuma-Iwojima, held from 17 till 25 October 2000 in Kyushu Japan... 

Organism and Cell Culture. Sulfolobus sp. strain 7 (originally named S. acido-caldarius strain 7 isolated from Beppu hot springs, Kyushu, Japan ) is a strictly aerobic and thermoacidophilic crenarchaeote that grows optimally at 75-80° and at pH 2.5-3.0. The 16S rRNA sequence and biochemical analysis of the isolate suggested that it is a novel crenarchaeote, belonging to the genus Sulfolobus. ... 

As another example of the use of an alternative catalyst, Mitsui Toatsu Chemical Company (now Mitsui Chemical) developed the MT Chlor process for producing chlorine in a fluidized bed of a proprietary catalyst containing crystalline chromia and silica [15,16]. A plant of 30,000 tpy capacity went into operation in Kyushu, Japan, in... 

Pradhan,T. B. S., Shiwakoti, D. R. and Imai, G. (1996), Effect of normal pressure and width of geosynthetic horizontal drain in pullout behaviour using saturated clay. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Earth Reinforcement, Kyushu, Japan, Vol. 1, pp. 133-138. 

Li, G.X., Jie, YX. Jie, G.Z. 2001. Study on the critical heigth of fiber-reinforced slope by centrifuge test. In Landmarks in earth reinforcement, Proc. Int Symp Earth Reinforcement, Fukuoka, kyushu, Japan, Netherlands Balkema. 239-241. 

Urushizaki, S. (1987) On the effects of functional films. Proc. Autumn Meeting on Postharvest Ethylene and Quality of Horticul. Crops, Japan Society for Horticultural Science, Kyushu, Japan. 

Olympic Plan for March 1946 invasion of Kyushu, Japan. 

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