Schedule

20 August 2023

8:00 – 8:30 International center in Sendai city
8:30 – 9:20 Sendai city to Shiogama Marine Gate (Stop 1)
Matsushima Bay cruise

The 2nd international Association of Geochemistry (IAGC) conference

9:30 – 10:50 Shiogama Marine Gate to Matsushima by ship (Stop 2)

Water-Rock Interaction WRI-17
Applied Isotope Geochemistry AIG-14
In SENDAI 2023

11:00 – 12:00 Zuiganji Temple (Stop 2)

Matsushima-Ishinomaki field excursion
Overview
We will visit the Shiogama Marine Gate (the departure and arrival point forships and sightseeing boats), cruise Matsushima Bay (one of Japan’s threemost scenic views) which is dotted by over 200 small islands, Zuiganji
Temple which originally founded in 828, and the Okawa elementary school
where more than 80 pupils and teachers lost their lives in the 2011 tsunami(Great East Japan Earthquake).
Shiogama Marine Gate

Zuiganji Temple

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 15:00 The Matsushima to the Tsunami disaster area of 11th March2011 (Stop 3: Okawa elementary school).
15:00 – 16:30 Return to back Sendai city.

Matsushima BayOkawa elementary school

Shiogama Marine Gate

Matsushima BayZuiganji Temple

Okawa elementary school

20 August 2023

The 2nd international Association of Geochemistry (IAGC) conference

Water-Rock Interaction WRI-17
Applied Isotope Geochemistry AIG-14
In SENDAI 2023

Matsushima-Ishinomaki field excursion
Matsushima and Ishinomaki areas at Miyagi prefecture consists of mainly
pre-Tertiary rocks, and are located in the South Kitakami terrane (SK). The
SK is a large domain of dominantly continental Paleozoic rocks and is an
important source of information concerning Japan's geological links to theeast Asian continental margin. Pre-tertiary rocks composes mainly ofNeogene (23-2.58 Ma) Matsushima (pumice tuff, sandstone, andsiltstone), Ajiri (tuffaceous sandstone, tuff, conglomerate, sandstone, andsiltstone), and Sauramachi Formations (andesite volcanic breccia and tuffbreccia).
Stop 1: The Shiogama marine gate is the departure and arrival point forships that travel between Shiogama and Urato Islands, remote islands offof Shiogama, and it is also where sightseeing boats go to and fromMastushima, one of Japan’s three most scenic spots, making it thegateway to sightseeing in Matsushima. In the Shiogama marine gate,Neogene (Ajiri formation) tuffaceous sandstone, tuff, conglomerate, andalternating sandstone and siltstone are dominant.
Stop 2: During ship trip from Shiogama to Matsushima, we will observe
Ajiri formation and Neogene Matsushima formation (Mt: pumice tuff withandesite fragments) as well as group of islands. At Matsushima, we willobserve Neogene pumice and Holocene sand, and visit the Zuiganji
Temple. Zuiganji is one of the Tohoku Region’s most famous andprominent Zen temples and the family temple of masamune Date, afamous feudal lord of the Age of Civil Wars of the 15th and 16th centuries.
The temple was originally founded in 828.

Stop 3: The Okawa elementary school where more than 80 pupils andteachers lost their lives in the 2011 tsunami is located about 4 kilometersfrom the coast and has exhibits to remember the calamity that beset theare on March 11, 2011, as well as an area where visitors can pray for thevictims.

Shiogama Marine Gate

Matsushima Bay

Zuiganji Temple

Okawa elementary school