Tokaido — megalopolis of Japan

The Tokaido east coast road has been the main road of Japan since Mediaeval times, and the journey from Tokyo at one end to Kyoto or Osaka at the other, which used to take a fortnight, can now be completed in about three hours by bullet train, and an even faster linear-motor car is likely to be in operation in the near future.Already during the 18. cent., Edo (Tokyo) was the largest city in the world, with a population over a million, and the rapid urbanization of Japan's population since Meiji times, and particularly during the post-WW II period, has been quite unprecendented. In 1950, the median size of place was 13,000 and by 1975 it was 140,000. About 60 million lived in the Tokaido zone.The Kanto, Nobi and Osaka plains, adjacent to the good harbours of Tokyo, Ise and Osaka bays, enjoying the relatively mild climate of the Pacific coast, and being within 600 km of each other, have been the focii of urban and industrial development in Japan. The emergence of Tokaido megalopolis was boosted by capital investment in this zone, and was contingent upon the industriousness and high level of education of the people.The concept of megalopolis in Japan is popularly associated with rapid urbanization, poly-nuclear and linear form, and concentration of population, capital and information, all of which elements are typified by the Tokaido zone. The linear megalopolis pattern has been postulated as a more efficient growth form for high-dense society than the radial metropolitan pattern. It has even been suggested that megalopolis is a concept perceived by the intellect, its physical structure determined by information networks, metropolis being perceived by the eye and its physical structure being determined by transport and energy networks.Quite irrespective of the concept of megalopolis, there can be no denying that Japan's society is a high-dense society. In 1975, 57% of the population lived in Densely Inhabited Districts (DIDs) at minimum densities of 40 persons per hectare, and these DIDs covered only 2.2% of the land area of Japan. The current trend is for more and more people to live in DIDs, but for overall DID densities to decrease. During the past 25 years, there has been a huge influx of population into the Tokaido zone, and while until 1960 the greatest increases were in the three main metropolitan centres, as these became saturated, rapid urbanization spread into the neighbouring prefectures. Since the mid-sixties, the central metropolitan wards have begun to lose residents, but the daytime population has continued to increase, giving rise to increasingly complex commuting patterns. To give an example, the commuting field of Yokohama includes almost all the prefectures of Tokaido megalopolis.Like the image of megalopolis itself, life in Tokaido megalopolis has its good and bad aspects. Although per capita space in dwellings is increasing somewhat, housing is extremely expensive and people commute long distances. Incomes are high but environmental problems persist. There is a U-turn phenomenon, but metropolitan suburbs remain a popular choice of residence.Central management functions and knowledge and information oriented occupations are predominantly concentrated in Tokyo and Osaka, the two main nodes of Tokaido megalopolis. In the intermediate cities, new employment opportunities are stimulated by the expansion of second-level managerial functions. The transport and communications networks of Tokaido are becoming congested as mobility and information flow increase.Planning in the eighties will be affected by the switch from industries dependent on raw materials to knowledge intensive industries; from investment in production to investment in public facilities and pollution control. Within Tokaido megalopolis, there is room for local governments to expand efforts to improve the existing situation, and at its fringes to avert some of the less desirable consequences of rapid urbanization.     

Authigenie gypsum in deep-sea manganese nodules

Gypsum crystals of authigenic origin have been found in manganese nodules of the deep-sea sediment surface (4500-5500 m water depth) from the Central Pacific Ocean.     

Zur Morphologie des Taramellits

Zusammenfassung Taramellit kommt im westlichen Nordamerika an mindestens acht Fundstellen vor, wo er bis jetzt wenig beachtet wurde. Die Taramellite dieser Fundstellen sind alle sehr Ti-reich. Bisher wurde Taramellit nach dem ersten Vorkommen, Candoglia in Italien, meist als faserig beschrieben. Die Ti-reichen Taramellite in Nordamerika, besonders die in California, welche mit Sanbornit und Gillespit vorkommen, erscheinen aber als gut ausgebildete Einkristalle. Es wurden viele solche Kristalle goniometrisch gemessen. Obgleich etwa dreißig Formen verzeichnet wurden, ist der Habitus der orthorhombischen Kristalle meist durch das Vorherrschen der Pinakoide und einiger {hk0} und {0kl} Prismen bedingt. Am häufigsten ist der tafelige habitus nach {100}.

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On the morphology of taramellite

Summary Taramellite is known from at least eight localities in western North America but has received little notice. The taramellite at all of these localities is especially Ti-rich. Hitherto taramellite has mostly been described as fibrous after its habit at the type locality, Candoglia, Italy. The Ti-rich taramellites of North America, especially those found with sanbornite and gillespite in California, occur as well-developed single crystals. Many such crystals were measured goniometrically. Though about thirty forms were recorded, the habit of the orthorhombic crystals is mostly determined by the pinacoids and a few {hk0} and {0kl} prisms. A tabular habit with {100} dominant is most common.

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herrn Prof. Dr.H. Meizner zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmet.     

On the variability of the position of the equatorial electrojet axis in India

An examination of day-to-day and monthly mean positions of the electrojet axis in relation to the changes in the apparent solar declination, in the Indian equatorial region shows marked association between the two. For relatively quiet days, significant correlations are observed between the solar declination and each of the parameters, the northernSq focal latitude, the jet axis and the line of maximumSq(H). From the significant mutual association of these parameters, it has been suggested that the equatorial electrojet could be a part of the world-wideSq current system.     

Mineralogical applications of the lattice constant variance-covariance matrices

Summary Direct and reciprocal lattice constant variance-covariance matrices when involved in the Law of Propagation of Errors can be used to gain a full evaluation of the error terms in mineralogical quantities expressed in terms of lattice constants. Properties and relationships which mutually connect the two matrices are discussed, with emphasis placed on physical dimensions. A practical application is given by calculating the error terms in the structural indicators (bc) and (^**) of alkali feldspars. The differences between values obtained by using both variances plus covariances and those obtained using variances alone, are very small. However, as the calculations are completely automated, the full formulation using variances plus covariances represents a suitable better approach.

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Mineralogische Anwendungen der Varianz-Kovarianz-Matrizen der Gitterkonstanten

Zusammenfassung Varianz-Kovarianz-Matrizen der direkten und reziproken Gitterkonstanten können beim Fehlerfortpflanzungsgesetz benützt werden, um eine vollständige Auswertung der Fehlerausdrücke mineralogischer Größen, ausgedrückt durch Gitterkonstanten, zu erhalten. Eigenschaften und Beziehungen, welche diese beiden Matrizen gegenseitig verknüpfen, werden mit Betonung physikalischer Dimensionen diskutiert. Eine praktische Anwendung wird gegeben, indem die Fehlerausdrücke der strukturellen Indikatoren (bc) und (^**) von alkalifeldspäten berechnet werden. Die Differenzen zwischen den Werten, die bei Benützung von Varianzen und Kovarianzen, bzw. nur von Varianzen erhalten wurden, sind sehr klein. Da aber die Berechnungen voll automatisiert sind, bietet die vollständige Formulierung mit Varianzen plus Kovarianzen eine brauchbare bessere Methode.

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Lower riphean low-carbonaceous shales in the southern urals: Raw material for the manufacture of porous rubble

A property of swelling on heating to yield firm lightweight granules has first been revealed for lowcarbonaceous shales (LCS) from the Riphean stratotype in the Bashkirian Megaanticlinorium, Southern Urals. These granules possess all technological properties of “keramzite” or claydite (an artificial, expanded clayey material) and can successfully substitute this material. Moreover, the procedure of their manufacture, analogous to the manufacture of “shungizite” (an artificial carbonaceous-clayey material) from Lower Proterozoic clayey rocks of Karelia, is more economical than that for keramzit. Productive beds of the homogeneous LCS make up extended bodies tens of meters thick. At the present time, they can be used as cover rocks during the exploitation of the Bakal siderite deposits. The LCS represent fine-grained quartz-chlorite-sericite aggregates (with variable relationships between the major components), bearing fine-dispersed shungite in amounts of 0.5–1.0%. High-quality raw material of this kind is characterized by a fine-dispersed admixture of a mixed-layer clayey material bearing montmorillonite and vermiculite. Geological, lithological, mineralogical, and chemical prognostic criteria have been developed for the shungizite raw material. It has been concluded that this construction material, new for the Urals, is promising for industrial use