Nickel- and chromium-bearing clay minerals in quartz magnesite rock at Izumma, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Parasitological studies in the Far East. XII. An epidemiologic survey in Shizuoka Prefecture, Honshu, Japan.

A parasitologic survey of human parasitic infections was made in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, during August and September, 1950 (Ritchie et al., 1951a). The objectives included a determination of (i) the incidence of infections, (ii) helminth densities,(iii) factors predisposing infections,(iv) the status of schistosomiasis,(v) status of paragonimiasis and filariasis, and (vi) the efficiency of ...

Intrafamilial transmission of a Sabin 1-related poliovirus in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Masaaki Sugieda, Satoshi Adachi, Megumi Inayoshi, Takashi Masuda, Munetoshi Tsubota, Hozumi Mano, Masato Iwama, Yoshio Murakami, Hiromu Yoshida and Hiroyuki Shimizu* Shizuoka Institute of Environment and Hygiene, Shizuoka 420-8637; Shizuoka Prefectural of Atami Pubic Health Center, Atami 413-0016; Kawana Seaside School Clinic, Ito 414-0044; and Department of Virology II, National Institute of I...

Rock-Fluid Interaction Along Seismogenic Faults Infered from Clay Minerals in Okitsu Mélange, the Cretaceous Shimanto Belt, SW Japan

Clay Minerals and Catalysis

More than half a century ago, Irish physicist John Desmond Bernal and Swiss geochemist Victor M. Goldschmidt independently proposed that clay minerals may have played an important role in prebiotic synthesis (Bernal 1949; Goldschmidt 1952). I concur that mineral catalysis must have had a central role in prebiotic synthesis because most uncatalyzed reactions start from simple precursors like hyd...

Shizuoka Prefecture Disaster Drill Involving the Japanese and US Military.

Izu peninsula is in Shizuoka prefecture, which is approximately 130 km from Tokyo. According to a report from the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Izu peninsula is located just on the border between the Philippine Sea and the Eurasian plate. In this area, huge earthquakes, called Tokai earthquakes, have occurred repeatedly every 100 to 150 years. The next e...