《Über den Bau und die Entstehung der japanischen Inseln》 ​​(English notation) UberdenBauunddieEntstehungderjapanischenInseln

Japanese: 《Über den Bau und die Entstehung der japanischen Inseln》(英語表記)UberdenBauunddieEntstehungderjapanischenInseln
《Über den Bau und die Entstehung der japanischen Inseln》 ​​(English notation) UberdenBauunddieEntstehungderjapanischenInseln

…After that, he planned a geological survey of the whole country, and surveyed the Tohoku, Kanto, and Shikoku regions himself, before retiring and returning to Japan in 1885. In the same year, at the International Geological Congress held in Berlin, he published “The Structure and Formation of the Japanese Islands” (1885), a summary of the geology of Japan that he had supervised and surveyed. He claimed that the Japanese archipelago is a single large arc-shaped mountain range with a belt-like structure divided into inner and outer belts, which was formed by lateral pressure from the continent, and that a large depression formed in the center, dividing the archipelago into northeastern Japan and southwestern Japan. In 1886, he named this large depression the Fossa Magna. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Over the bowl and the entrance of Japanese needles" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その後全国の地質調査を立案し,自身も東北・関東・四国地方を調査,85年退職,帰国した。 同年ベルリンで開かれた万国地質学会議に際して,自分が指導して調査した日本の地質をまとめた《日本群島の構造と生成Über den Bau und die Entstehung der japanischen Inseln》を出版(1885),日本列島は内・外帯に分かれた帯状構造をもつ単一の大弧状山脈で,大陸側からの横圧力によって形成され,さらに中央部に大陥没帯を生じて,東北日本と西南日本に分かれたとした。その大陥没地帯を86年フォッサマグナと命名した。…

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