Call for Papers

“The 100s: Significant Exposures of the World” presented by the Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi)

This scientific photo-essay series introduces 100 representative geological/geographical outcrops on the Earth, from which we can understand the fundamental structures and evolutionary history of the planet. Studies of geology and geography have brought and bring us not only new concepts for understanding the Earth, but also the unbelievable beauty of nature. We hope all our readers will enjoy and learn a lot by reading this series.

To maintain quality and quantity, each report should contain the following items, besides the 2- to 3-line abstract, five key words, main text and references.

Index map in the given format.
Geologic map of area.
High-resolution photograph of outcrop (in color).
Explanatory figure (s) for details.

The main text needs to be in English with a summary in Japanese given at the end. The total length of a manuscript is no more than six pages; i.e., four pages in color printing and two pages in black/white. Submitted manuscripts are reviewed by a special task force (reviewing committee) set up for this series before final acceptance. A summary in Japanese will be translated by the editors should foreign contributors require it.

Handling Editors: Yukio ISOZAKI, Shigenori MARUYAMA, Hiroyuki KAMEI and Toshio KIKUCHI

I. Civilization over the last 10000 years

001: Bottom-up revolution of democracy in northern African countries since 2011
002: Information revolution, first computer, Internet, and Google from the USA
003: Drilling oil technology, Oklahoma, USA
004: Extensive industrial use of iron from Big Five Great Lakes district, North America
005: Industrial Revolution, the first railway, aircraft, automobile
006: Inca culture in Chile
007: Mesopotamian civilization, and wet climates (5000 years ago)
008: Nazca, huge monuments in Peru, Pyramids in Mexico
009: Indus Civilization
010: Yellow River Civilization
011: Noah's Flood and northern coast of Black Sea (10000 years ago, the beginning of agriculture and birth of primitive civilization).

II. Living creatures, ecosystem, topography, and active volcanoes

012: Living stromatolites in Hamelin Pool, western Australia
013: Non-flying birds in New Zealand
014: East African rift valley and birthplace of human beings
015: Zhoukoudian Cave of Beijing ancient man
016: Java ancient man in Indonesia
017: Neanderthal man in France
018: First wall paintings in Altamira, France
019: First super-architecture built by humans: Pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt
020: The Great Barrier Reef along the eastern margin of Australia, Reefs in the Central Pacific, and Darwins' speculation of the history of reefs
021: Modern analog of 600 Ma-old special environment for the origins of metazoans, examples from Tasmania
022: Hydrothermal bio-communities in active geothermal fields, New Zealand
023: Mat-formed ecosystem at mid-oceanic ridge on-land, Iceland
024: Bio-communities in extremely cold environments, Antarctica and elsewhere, and also in extreme environments such as Amazon equatorial rainforests, subtropical, deserts, warm middle latitude zone, tundra, and glaciers.
025: Aurora borealis in Yellowknife, central north Canada
026: Topography; glaciers in New Zealand, Alaska, and Patagonia
027: Fault topography; active strike-slip fault Median tectonic Line, SW Japan
028: San Andreas Fault, California, USA
029: African Rift Valley (step-wise topography) in East Africa with active volcanoes such as carbonatite
030: Grand Canyon, USA; rifting of continent with rising plume head and high-speed erosion
031: Glacial topography, (1) U-shaped fjord, (2)huge stray rocks, gravel beds (morain), and (3) drumlins
032: Niagara Falls near Big Five lakes, North America
033: Dead Sea and the oldest book of the Bible
034: Sahara and Gobi Deserts
035: Migrating Lake Lop Nor, western China
036: Spectacular tower-like A-type granite in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
037: Angel Falls in the Guinea highlands, and origin of carbonate platforms in Late to Early Cambrian
038: Meteorite craters created by (icy) meteorite bombardment
039: Active volcanoes, (1) Hawaiian shield volcanoes, (2) Strato-volcanoes, such as Mt. Fuji, caldera-shaped double-ring volcanoes such as Mt. Aso, Japan, Lake Taupo, New Zealand, or Yellowstone National Park, (3) hot-spot volcano in Iceland, (4) flood basalts, Deccan Plateau, India, (5) Superplume volcanoes in Tahiti, southern central Pacific, (6) highly explosive eruption and resultant shape of volcano, Mt. Bandai, central Japan, (7) Mt. Vesuvius, Italy and Pompeii (buried Roman town in Italy), (8) Subduction process along Pacific margins

III. Plate Boundary processes

040: Active Plate Boundary processes, (1) collision of intra-oceanic arc against Honshu arc, Japan, (2) Collision of India against Asia; Himalayan mountains, (3) Tibetan plateau, (4) Alps (Europe), (5) New Zealand (transform F), (6) San Andreas F. (7) Iceland hotspot with mid-oceanic ridge

IV. Classical localities in the history of the Earth

041: Volcanic neck; Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, and development of geologic concepts in UK
042: Hutton's Unconformity
043: Geomagnetic reversals discovered by Prof. Matsuyama of Kyoto University
044: Huge thrust planes at the Matterhorn, Swiss Others: Steno, Italy (Firenze), Lyell, Stille (Germany), Greenly ( mélange, Anglesey, England)
045: Barrow's mineral zones, southern Scotland, UK

V. Outcrops providing significant evidence of the history of life and the planet

1) Mantle-derived rocks

046: Peridotite body at St. Pole Island, Central Atlantic
047: Mantle-derived rock xenoliths from Lesotho south Africa, Solomon Islands, and Hawaiian Islands
048: Tibet, a huge plateau formed by the delamination of subducted lithosphere

2) Cenozoic

049: Nummulites from the Pyramids (Egypt)
050: Paris basin with vertebrates (France)
051: Alpine folding (Switzerland)
052: Matterhorn-doubled crusts (Italy)
053: Tauern Fenster (Switzerland)
054: Evaporite in the whole Mediterranean sea: Messinian crisis
055: Himalayan orogeny (Nepal)
056: Last Glacial Mamimum in New York (USA)
057: Continental rifting of Basin & Range (USA)
058: Columbia River Basalt (USA)
059: Snake River Basalt and hotspot track (USA)
060: Phosphorite nodules (New Zealand)
061: Barringer Meteorite Crater (USA)
062: Antarctic meteorites: largest collection of meteorites
063: Remnants of erosion of 1 m diameter sandstone sphere on a beach, New Zealand
064: Evolving life: (1) African rifts, (2) Lake Victoria and Tanganyika and evolving fishes, onland Galapagos, (3) Galapagos Islands, tortoise, iguana, (4) Short-range species improvements by human beings

3) Mesozoic

065: Hallstadt limestone (Austria)
066: Triassic bedded chert and accretionary complex in Inuyama (Japan)
067: Triassic reptiles: evidence for continental drift (Brazil)
068: Petrified forest in Arizona (USA)
069: Jurassic Solenhofen limestone with Archaeopteryx (Germany)
070: Jurassic feathered bird in Liaoning (China)
071: Cretaceous dinosaur graveyard in Utah (USA)
072: Kimberlite at Kimberley (S. Africa)
073: Semail Cretaceous ophiolite (Oman)
074: Jadeite-bearing blueschists in California (USA)
075: Turbidite in Calavaca (Spain)
076: Cretaceous chalk at Dover Strait (UK/France)
077: Porphyry Copper deposits (Bolivia)
078: Chixulub crater: dinosaur-killer (Mexico)
079: K-T boundary at Gubbio (Italy)
080: Kimberlite pipes, South Africa, and mantle processes
081: First flying dinosaur fossils, China (origin of birds)
082: The oldest bird fossils from Germany
083: World's largest T-Rex (Sue specimen), Kansas, USA
084: Ammonite fossil walls from S. America
085: Fossils of Cretaceous forests near North Pole, Ellesmere island, North Pole Sea
086: Trilobites from Morocco
087: Fossil walls along the Dover Strait (World Heritage)

4) Paleozoic

088: Phosphorite deposits/nodules in Yunnan (S.China)
089: The Burgess Shale (Canada)
090: The Ordovician gigantic trace fossil (Spain)
091: Larvikite-moonstone (Norway)
092: Skaeagard complex (Greenland)
093: Barrovian metamorphic belt (UK)
094: The first land plants (UK)
095: Devonian ocean anoxic event (Czech)
096: Catskill delta (USA)
097: Amphibian's land invasion
098: Carboniferous cyclothem
099: Footprint of Pederupus (Ireland)
100: Gondwana glaciation (Brazil)
101: Karoo basin (S. Africa)
102: Capitan reef (USA)
103: P-T Boundary event on the platform at Meishan (China)
104: Diamond-bearing regional metamorphic belts of the world, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
105: P/T Boundary event in open sea, Inuyama, Japan
106: V/C Boundary, S China, Three Gorges Region
107: Devonian Carbonate platform, Guiliin, S. China
108: Old red sandstones (Devonian) dragonfly and centipede

5) Late Proterozoic

109: Ediacaran fauna from Flinders Range (Australia)
110: Snowball Earth II in Three Gorges area (China)
111: Dropstone (Namibia)
112: The first geological map of Anglesey (UK)
113: Cradle of animals at Grand Canyon (USA)
114: Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary in Avalon (Canada)

6) Middle Proterozoic

115: Grypania: The first eukaryote from Michigan (USA)
116: Carbonates in Baffin Island (Canada)
117: Acritarch fossils (algal plankton etc.)
118: Proterozoic juvenile crust in Yavapai-Mazatzal belt (USA)
119: Tidal rhythmite in Utah (USA)

7) Early Proterozoic

120: The first snowball Earth: Huronian diamictite (Canada)
121: Sudbury meteorite impact Crater (Canada)
122: The oldest megafossil (Gabon)
123: Shungite (Finland)
124: Uranite beds (Canada)

8) Archean

125: The Earth's oldest rock: Acasta gneiss (Canada)
126: TThe oldest sedimentary rocks in Isua (Greenland)
127: The oldest microfossils at the North Pole (W.Australia)
128: Komatiite along Komati river (S. Africa)
129: Archean flood basalt: Mt. Roe basalt (W. Australia)
130: The oldest stromatolite swarm: onset of photosynthesis (W. Australia)
131: Banded iron formation in Pilbara (W. Australia)
132: The oldest glaciation in Pongola (S. Africa)
133: 2.6-2.7 Ga Stromatolites along the continental platform suggesting large-scale photosynthesis and resultant O2-increase, Redmont Western Australia
134: 2.7 Ga mantle overturn and layered intrusion of mafic magma into the craton, Zimbabwe, Africa, Great Dyke

9) Hadean

135: Narrier Complex, W. Australia; Hadean zircons back to 4.4 Ga
136: Anorthosites on the Moon (Photo)

All queries related to the Permission, contact with:

Editorial Office

Editorial Board of Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi)
Tokyo Geographical Society
12-2 Nibancho, Chiyodaku-ku, Tokyo, 102-0084, Japan
Fax: +81-3-5226-9120
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.