Friday, September 07, 2012

Kar at Kamikochi

Getting off a bus at Kamikochi bus stop,we can see kar topography before us.It is situated southern slope of Mt.Hotaka.Last stage of Pleistocene several glaciers existed in Japan.Now we can see glacial topography like kar mainly at Japanese Alps,Matsumoto city,Nagano pref. 

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Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Rice terraces in winter


Usually there is no rice field on mountain in Japan.But we can see it on mountain where tertiary mudstone exists,because mudstone changes to clay there.Sometimes landslide occurs on rice terrace,Tokamachi city,Niigta pref.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Rice terraces in winter


Usually there is no rice field on mountain in Japan.But we can see it on mountain where tertiary mudstone exists,because mudstone changes to clay there.Sometimes landslide occurs on rice terrace,Tokamachi city,Niigta pref.

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Fuji river

  
The moutain in the photo is Mt,Fuji.The town on the other side of the river is Fuji city.There is an an active fault along the river and the land on this side of the river rises every time earthquake occurs..So the height of Fuji city is lower than Fuji river.This fault is the boundary of Eurasian plate and Philippine sea plate,Fuji city,Shizuoka pref.

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Friday, February 17, 2012

Kandagawa bridge


Kandagawa bridge is the railway bridge across Kanda river constructed in 1932.It has chracteristic pier seen in the photo.Kandagawa bridge is thought as the symbol of Akihabara,Chiyoda ward,Tokyo metropolis.


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