Annals of the Tohoku Geographical Association
Online ISSN : 1884-1244
Print ISSN : 0387-2777
ISSN-L : 0387-2777
Alpine Subnival Boulder Pavements in the Central Japan Alps
Yoshio HARA
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1983 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 119

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Alpine subnival boulder pavements are observed near the top of Mt. Kiso-Komagatake (137°48′ E, 35°47′ N), Central Japan Alps. These pavements are similar to Type-II (Hara and Thorn, 1982) in the Colorado Front Range and are formed by granodiorite boulders with fine materials (grus) beneath them. A typical pavement KH is located at the bottom of a nivation hollow (Photo: 2, 840m a. s. l.) with rectangular plan shape (9×18m: 10°NE). Another small pavement (KI in Fig.: 2, 750m a. s. l.) which has humus within fine materials beneath their boulders was developed different age from KH.

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