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Session Outline

Updated June 17,  2012
Special Sessions
S1: Mineralogical researches for elucidating toxic elements behavior related to 311 earthquake and Fukushima power plant accident
S2: Water Rock interaction
S3: Fluids in igneous processes
Regular Sessions
R1: Characterization and description of minerals
R2: Crystal structure, crystal chemistry, physical properties of minerals, crystal growth and applied mineralogy
R3: High-pressure science and deep Earth’s material
R4: Earth’s surface, environment and life
R5: Extraterrestrial materials
R6: Plutonic rocks, volcanic rocks and subduction factory
R7: Petrology, mineralogy and economic geology
                                                                   (Joint session with
SRG*)
R8: Metamorphic rocks and tectonics

  * SRGThe Society of Resource Geology


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S1:Mineralogical researches for elucidating toxic elements behavior related to 311 earthquake and Fukushima power plant accident

Outline

Big disaster of 311 earthquake and Fukushima power plant accident have brought serious damage to environment. Relationships between toxic elements and minerals are fundamental and researches for them are very important for mineralogists. In this session , research results will be reported and future works for the recovery of the environment will be discussed.

Conveners

Junji Akai: akai[a]geo.sc.niigata-u.ac.jp 
Toshihiro Kogure: kogure[a]eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp 
Tsutomu Sato: tomsato[a]eng.hokudai.ac.jp

S2:Water Rock interaction

Outline

Topic session "Water - Rock Interaction" involves multidisciplinary research for roles of "fluids" to the Earth Processes, related to metamorphic rocks, volcanic rocks, hydrothermal alteration, ore deposit, hydrothermal experiments, and transport phenomena of fluids. This topic session also includes geological application such as mineralogical study of radioactive decontamination, nuclear waste geological disposal and carbon dioxide capture and storage.

Conveners

Noriyoshi Tsuchiya: tsuchiya[a]mail.kankyo.tohoku.ac.jp
Yasuko Okuyama: okuyama-gsj[a]aist.go.jp  
Koichiro Fujimoto: koichiro[a]u-gakugei.ac.jp

S3:Fluids in igneous processes

Outline

Mass and heat transport induces various types of igneous processes in the mantle and crust. In this session we discuss the role of fluids in the igneous processes as well as the physicochemical properties of the fluids. This session covers a variety of geological phenomena in relation to high-temperature fluids, including the generation and differentiation of a magma, vesiculation and fluid transport in a magma, ore-formation and volcanic eruptions. We welcome contributions based on analytical, experimental and theoretical studies.

Conveners

Shumpei Yoshimura: shumpyos[a]ep.sci.hokudai.ac.jp
Satoshi Okumura: sokumura[a]m.tohoku.ac.jp
Takeshi Kuritani: kuritani[a]sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp

R1:Characterization and description of minerals

Outline

This session focuses on mineral descriptions and analytical methods of earth and planetary materials. Descriptions of occurrence, morphology, internal texture, crystal structure, chemistry, fluid inclusion, solid inclusion, crystal imperfections in minerals, and studies on development of analytical methods for mineral sciences are welcomed.

Conveners

Ritsuro Miyawaki: miyawaki[a]kahaku.go.jp  
Masahide Akasaka: akasaka[a]riko.shimane-u.ac.jp
Masanori Kurosawa: kurosawa[a]geol.tsukuba.ac.jp

R2:Crystal structure, crystal chemistry, physical properties of minerals, crystal growth and applied mineralogy

Outline

This session covers structural description of natural and synthetic minerals, their growth and dissolution mechanism together with interesting physic-chemical properties. Advanced analytical techniques for characterizing a variety of interesting mineral structures and their fundamental properties are welcomed.

Conveners

Toshiro Nagase:nagase[a]m.tohoku.ac.jp 
Kazumasa Sugiyama: kazumasa[a]imr.tohoku.ac.jp
Akira Yoshiasa: yoshiasa@sci.kumamoto-u.ac.jp

R3:High-pressure science and deep Earth’s material

Outline

It is significantly important to understand the wide range of mineral sciences in the Earth’s interior, because dynamics in the Earth’s interior must be closely related to not only the evolution of the Earth but also the environment near the Earth’ surface. The aim of this session will be to discuss the full range of physical and chemical properties of minerals on the basis of experimental and computational approaches. Targeted materials are not only minerals but also their analogous, amorphous materials and melt.

Conveners

Hiroyuki Kagi: kagi[a]eqchem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp 
Takaya Nagai: nagai[a]mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp 
Toru Inoue: inoue[a]sci.ehime-u.ac.jp

R4:Earth’s surface, environment and life

Outline

This session aims to present the latest advances in the mineralogical sciences of the Earth surface. The session will cover physical and chemical characteristics of nano-scale minerals, biomineralization, processes at water-mineral interface, inorganic-organic interactions, and others.

Coveners

Keisuke Fukushi: fukushi[a]staff.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Satoshi Utsunomiya: utu[a]chem.rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Toshihiro Kogure: kogure[a]eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

R5:Extraterrestrial materials

Outline

We welcome contributions on mineralogical sciences of extraterrestrial materials such as presolar grains, cosmic dust, meteorites, lunar samples, and return samples

Convenerss

Tomoki Nakamura: tomoki[a]m.tohoku.ac.jp
Yusuke Seto: seto[a]crystal.kobe-u.ac.jp
Shogo Tachibana: tachi[a]ep.sci.hokudai.ac.jp

R6:Plutonic rocks, volcanic rocks and subduction factory

Outline

This session focuses on studies of plutonic and volcanic rocks. We expect lively discussions on magma genesis, magma emplacement and their relationship with tectonics, from the viewpoint of various disciplines such as petrology, mineralogy, geochemistry, dating, and geology. This session also welcomes studies on subduction factory that produces continental crust.

Conveners

Masao Ban: ban[a]sci.kj.yamagata-u.ac.jp  
Atsushi Kamei: kamei-a[a]riko.shimane-u.ac.jp
Tsukasa Ohba: t-ohba[a]gipc.akita-u.ac.jp

R7:Petorology, Mineralogy and Economic geology
                                                      (Joint session with SRG)

Outline

This session accepts a wide range of petrological, mineralogical, economic geological, and geochemical studies that deal with earth and planetary materials. We expect various discussions about constituent materials of the earth.

Conveners

Jun-ichi Ando: jando[a]hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Koichiro Fujinaga: k-fujinaga[a]sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

R8: Metamorphic rocks and tectonics

Outline

We call for interdisciplinary contributions dealing with crustal and mantle dynamics at the plate convergent boundaries, including approaches from petrology, structural geology, geochronology, fluid inclusion studies, numerical modeling and isotope geochemistry.

Conveners

Tetsuo Kawakami: t-kawakami[a]kueps.kyoto-u.ac.jp  Nobuhiko Nakano: n-nakano[a]scs.kyushu-u.ac.jp