Volcanic ash sand plateau

Japanese: 火山灰砂台地 - かざんばいさだいち
Volcanic ash sand plateau

…In the narrow sense, it refers to a plateau-like topography made up of horizontal layers of ancient rocks, that is, a continental plateau. In addition to continental plateaus, geomorphological plateaus include lava plateaus, limestone plateaus, volcanic ash sand plateaus, and alluvial plateaus. In Japan, places with names such as Yodobashidai, Kobinatadai, and Fujimidai are part of the plateau topography, and many of them are alluvial plateaus, while Akiyoshidai, Hiraodai, Taishakudai, and Atetsudai are limestone plateaus. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "volcanic ash sand plateau" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…狭義には古期岩の水平層から成る台状の地形,すなわち〈大陸台地〉をいう。地形学的台地には大陸台地のほかに溶岩台地,石灰岩台地,火山灰砂台地,洪積台地が含まれる。日本の例では淀橋台,小日向(こびなた)台,富士見台など〈○○台〉の地名の場所は台地地形の一部で,多くは洪積台地にあたり,一方,秋吉台,平尾台,帝釈台,阿哲台などは石灰岩台地にあたる。…

※「火山灰砂台地」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

<<:  Volcanic Ash Chronology - Volcanic Ash Chronology

>>:  Volcanic ash cone

Recommend

American wistaria

…It is cultivated in the same way as wisteria, an...

Navigation - kouhou (English spelling)

A method of guiding a vehicle such as a ship, air...

Draft evasion - Choheiikihi

To avoid or attempt to avoid conscription. In coun...

The Universal Gate Chapter of the Bodhisattva Kannon

…One of the sutras of Mahayana Buddhism. In detai...

Violent God - Araburukami

…They are also written as 'evil gods', &#...

IAU - International Academy of Sciences

International Association of Universities . An adv...

School urine test - gakkoukennyo

The School Health Law requires that elementary, ju...

Electric shock

A phenomenon in which a human or animal body come...

hill

… reef: Rocks at or near the surface that can be ...

Spartoi

…He then made the majority of these soldiers figh...

Ficus diversifolia (English spelling) Ficus diversifolia

… [Takabayashi Masatoshi]. … *Some of the termino...

Apache - Apache (English spelling)

A tribe of Native Americans who speak Athabascan l...

Mediastinum

The space near the median plane of the thorax bet...

Sunomata [town] - Sunomata

A former town in Anpachi County in the southwest o...

Kakokai - Kakokai

One of the nationalistic revolutionary groups tha...