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EXHIBITION OF THE KITAGAWA MINERAL COLLECTION

INVITATION TO THE JAPAN GEOSCIENCE UNION MEETING We are pleased to inform you that the annual Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014 will be held from April 28 to May 2, 2014, at Pacifi co YOKOHAMA, Kanagawa, Japan. More than 40 international sessions will be held. The abstract deadline was February 12, 2014. More information is available at the following Ryuji Kitagawa in front of Colorful crystals of tourmaline and spodumene on display link: www.jpgu.org/meeting_e/. his favorite specimens in the in the Nakatsugawa Mineral Museum collection INVITATION TO THE ASIA JOURNAL OF MINERALOGICAL OCEANIA GEOSCIENCES SOCIETY th The Japan Association of Mineralogical AND PETROLOGICAL SCIENCES 11 ANNUAL MEETING 2014 I Sciences and the Clay Science Society of Japan Vol. 108 no. 6, December 2013 The Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) are coorganizing a traveling exhibition of was established in 2003 to serve the geosci- splendid crystals. The specimens on display Original articles ences community in Asia and Oceania. Since were selected from the mineral collection of ƒ Middle Paleozoic greenstones of the Hangay its inception, the focus of the society has been the late Professor Ryuji Kitagawa of Hiroshima region, central Mongolia: Remnants of an to promote the geosciences and their applica- University (1949–2009), who had the cher- accreted oceanic plateau and forearc magma- tions for the benefi t of humanity, not only in ished desire to show people, especially chil- tism — Ganbat ERDENESAIHAN, Akira the Asia–Oceania region but also all over the dren and youths, the wonders of geomaterials. ISHIWATARI, Demberel OROLMAA, Shoji world. In this light, the society’s primary Most of the specimens were collected by ARAI, Akihiro TAMURA activity is to organize an annual conference Professor Kitagawa himself from outcrops and ƒ Crystal structure of hydroxylbastnasite-(Ce) and exhibition in June/July/August for fi ve mine faces in many countries. The exhibition from Kamihouri, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan days. The AOGS 2014 Annual Meeting will started last May at the Hiroshima Children’s — Kiyonori MICHIBA, Ritsuro MIYAWAKI, be held in Sapporo, Japan, from July 28 to Museum and has been open to the public at Tetsuo MINAKAWA, Yasuko TERADA, Izumi August 1, with an expected attendance of 3500 the Nakatsugawa Mineral Museum, the NAKAI, Satoshi MATSUBARA participants. The abstract deadline was National Museum of Nature and Science in February 11, 2014. More information is avail- ƒ Takanawaite-(Y), a new mineral of the Tokyo, the Fossa Magna Museum in Itoigawa, able at the following link: www.asiaoceania. M-type polymorph with Y(Ta,Nb)O4 from and the Kiseki Museum of World Stone in org/aogs2014. Fujinomiya. The exhibition is now at the Takanawa Mountain, Ehime Prefecture, Japan Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, — Daisuke NISHIO-HAMANE, Tetsuo as a part of the IYCr2014 Promotion and MINAKAWA, Yukikazu OHGOSHI Recognition Activities in Japan. The exhibition will continue traveling to the Tohoku Letters University Museum in Sendai, the Toyohashi ƒ Petrology and phase equilibrium modeling Museum of Natural History, the Kuji Amber of spinel-sapphirine-bearing mafi c granulite Museum, the Yamanashi Jewelry Museum, the from Akarui Point, Lutzow-Holm Complex, Nagoya City Science Museum, the Ehime East Antarctica: Implications for the P-T path Prefectural Science Museum, the Toyama — Shunki IWAMURA, Toshiaki TSUNOGAE, Science Museum, and others. We hope that Mutsumi KATO, Tatsuya KOIZUMI, Daniel J. the exhibition will give future mineralogists DUNKLEY the opportunity to develop an interest in ƒ Blue cathodoluminescence related to defect minerals. center in smithsonite — Hirotsugu NISHIDO, Masato MAKIO, Nobuhiro KUSANO, Kiyotaka Ritsuro Miyawaki NINAGAWA National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan ƒ Spectroscopic determination of the critical temperatures and pressures of H2O, CO2, and Yasuyuki Banno C2H5OH — Chizu SEKIGUCHI, Nobuo HIRANO, Geological Survey of Japan, National Atsushi OKAMOTO, Noriyoshi TSUCHIYA Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

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