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Professor MORISHITA Tomoaki

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Faculty, Affiliation

Faculty of Geosciences and civil Engineering,Institute of Science and Engineering

College and School Educational Field

Division of Natural Sciences, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology
Division of Environmental Design, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology
Division of Natural System, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology
Course in Earth and Planetary Science, School of Geosciences and Civil Engineering, College of Science and Engineering

Laboratory

Academic Background

【Academic background(Doctoral/Master's Degree)】
Kanazawa University Graduate School, Division of Natural Science 199603 Completed
【Academic background(Bachelor's Degree)】
Kanazawa University Department of Earth Sciences 199403

Career

2001-2006(2001/05/01-2007/03/31)
2006-2007(2007/04/01-2007/10/31)

Year & Month of Birth

1971/01

Academic Society

Award

2006-2007(2007/04/01-2007/10/31)

Specialities

Petrology/Mineralogy/Economic geology

Speciality Keywords

Research Themes

Study on Mantle-derived rocks

Books

Papers

  •  The recent data will be up-dated at http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AMDbIyUAAAAJ&hl=en  Up-date publications
  •  Possible pseudotachylyte from the Horoman peridotite complex of the Hidaka belt, Hokkaido, northern Japan Journal of Geological Society of Japan 104 18-23 1998/01
  •  Three-dimensional microstructure of symplectite minerals in the Horoman peridotite: a preliminary analysis Journal of Geological Society of Japan 106 800-811 2000/08
  •  Extremely low-Al orthopyroxene in the Horoman Peridotite, Japan. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences 96 48-53 2001/02
  •  Finding of corundum-bearing gabbro boulder possibly derived from the Horoman peridotite complex, Hokkaido, northern Japan Journal of Mineralogy, petrology and Economic Geology 93 52-63 1998/02

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  •  High-pressure aluminous mafic rock from the Ronda peridotite massif, Southern Spain: significance of sapphirine- and corundum-bearing mineral assemblages LITHOS 57 143-161 2001/02
  •  Model of layering formation in a mantle peridotite (Horoman, Hokkaido Japan) EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 185 299-313 2001/01
  •  Petrogenesis of corundum-bearing mafic rock in the Horoman Peridotite Complex JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY 42 7 1279-1299 2001/07
  •  Diversity of carbonate occurrences at the Fizh massif in the northern part of the Oman ophiolite; a preliminary report The Science Reports of Kanazawa University 18 13-24 1999/01
  •  Three-dimensional textural characteristics of symplectite from the Horoman peridotite, Hokkadio, Japan The Science Reports of Kanazawa University 18 25-46 1999/12
  •  Evolution of spinel-pyroxene symplectite in spinel-lherzolites from the Horoman Complex, Japan. CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY 144 509-522 2003/03
  •  Closed-system geochemical recycling of crustal materials in alpine-type peridotite GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 67 303-310 2003/02
  •  Evolution of low-Al orthopyroxene in the Horoman Peridotite, Japan: an unusual indicator of metasomatising fluids JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY 44 1237-1246 2003/08
  •  Petrology of an apatite-rich layer in the Finero phlogopite-peridotite, Italian Western Alps; implications for evolution of a metasomatising agent LITHOS 69 37-49 2003/07
  •  Occurrence and chemical composition of barian feldspars in a jadeitite from the Itoigawa-Ohmi district in the Renge high-P/T type metamorphic belt, Japan 69 39-51 2005/01
  •  Magnesium and strontium distributions within valves of a recent marine ostracode, Neonesidea oligodentata: implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions Morishita, T. et al., 8 1-11 2007
  •  Trace element compositions of jadeite (+/- omphacite) in jadeitites from the Itoigawa-Ohmi district, Japan: implications for fluid processes in subduction zones Morishita, T. et al., 16 40-56 2007
  •  Occurrence and chemical composition of amphiboles and related minerals in corundum-bearing mafic rock form the Horoman Peridotite Complex, Japan Morishita, T. et al., 95 425-440 2007
  •  Significance and Variety of Mantle-crust Boundary in the Oman Ophiolite UESUGI Jiro,ARAI Shoji,MORISHITA Tomoaki,MATSUKAGE Kyoko,KADOSHIMA Kazuyuki,TAMURA Akihiro,ABE Natsue J. Geogr. 112 5 750 2003/10/25 
  •  Corrections for Na-loss on micro-analysis of glasses by electron probe X-ray micro analyzer Satoshi Noguchi,Tomoaki Morishita,Atsushi Toramaru Japanese Magazine of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences 33 3 85 2004
  •  Petrochemical characteristics of felsic veins in mantle xenoliths from Tallante (SE Spain): an insight into activity of silicic melt within the mantle wedge Yohei Shimizu,Shoji Arai,Tomoaki Morishita,Hisayoshi Yurimoto,Fernando Gervilla FIFTH HUTTON SYMPOSIUM ON THE ORIGIN OF GRANITES AND RELATED ROCKS 389 265 2004
  •  Formation and deformation mechanisms of pyroxene-spinel symplectite in an ascending mantle, the Horoman peridotite complex, Japan: An EBSD (electron backscatter diffraction) study Norihiro Odashima,Tomoaki Morishita,Kazuhito Ozawa,Hiroko Nagahara,Akira Tsuchiyama,Ryoko Nagashima JOURNAL OF MINERALOGICAL AND PETROLOGICAL SCIENCES 103 1 1 2008/02
  •  Petrochemical characteristics of felsic veins in mantle xenoliths from Tallante (SE Spain): An insight into activity of silicic melt within the mantle wedge Yohei Shimizu,Shoji Arai,Tomoaki Morishita,Hisayoshi Yurimoto,Fernando Gervilla Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences 95 265 2004/12/01 
  •  A new type of orthopyroxenite xenolith from Takashima, Southwest Japan: silica enrichment of the mantle by evolved alkali basalt Shoji Arai,Yohei Shimizu,Tomoaki Morishita,Yoshito Ishida CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY 152 3 387 2006/09
  •  Constraints on the evolutionary history of aluminous mafic rocks in the Ronda peridotite massif (Spain) from trace-element compositions of clinopyroxene and garnet Tomoaki Morishita,Shoji Arai,Yoshito Ishida,Akihiro Tamura,Fernando Gervilla GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL 43 3 191 2009
  •  Serpentinized troctolites exposed near the Kairei Hydrothermal Field, Central Indian Ridge: Insights into the origin of the Kairei hydrothermal fluid supporting a unique microbial ecosystem Kentaro Nakamura,Tomoaki Morishita,Wolfgang Bach,Frieder Klein,Kaori Hara,Kyoko Okino,Ken Takai,Hidenori Kumagai EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 280 1-4 128 2009/04
  •  ANDRADITE-UVAROVITE SOLID SOLUTION FROM HYDROTHERMALLY ALTERED PODIFORM CHROMITITE, RUTLAND OPHIOLITE, ANDAMAN, INDIA Biswajit Ghosh,Tomoaki Morishita CANADIAN MINERALOGIST 49 2 573 2011/04
  •  Diversity of melt conduits in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc mantle: Implications for the earliest stage of arc magmatism Tomoaki Morishita,Kenichiro Tani,Hiroshi Shukuno,Yumiko Harigane,Akihiro Tamura,Hidenori Kumagai,Eric Hellebrand GEOLOGY 39 4 411 2011/04
  •  Igneous, Alteration and Exhumation Processes Recorded in Abyssal Peridotites and Related Fault Rocks from an Oceanic Core Complex along the Central Indian Ridge Tomoaki Morishita,Kaori Hara,Kentaro Nakamura,Takashi Sawaguchi,Akihiro Tamura,Shoji Arai,Kyoko Okino,Ken Takai,Hidenori Kumagai JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY 50 7 1299 2009/07
  •  The 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Tsunami at the South Andaman Island: 5 years later Morishita Tomoaki,Ghosh Biswajit Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan 116 5 V 2010 
  •  Insight into the uppermost mantle section of a maturing arc: The Eastern Mirdita ophiolite, Albania Tomoaki Morishita,Yildirim Dilek,Minella Shallo,Akihiro Tamura,Shoji Arai LITHOS 124 3-4 215 2011/06
  •  Petrological characteristics of Dark-colored silica veins in Tertiary rhyolite (the Iozen Formation) from the southern part of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan Morishita Tomoaki,Arai Shoji,Wakimoto Rie,Mizuta Toshio,Ishiyama Daizo,Sato Hinako,Umeka Masaru,Fujisawa Akiko,Moriichi Shingo,Ohzeko Mitsuhiro,Mori Takami,Yamazaki Mayu,Yamamoto Shinya Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 112 4 273 2006/04 
  •  Discovery of lanthanide tetrad effect in an oceanic plagiogranite from an Ocean Core Complex at the Central Indian Ridge 25 degrees S Kentaro Nakamura,Tomoaki Morishita,Qing Chang,Natsuki Neo,Hidenori Kumagai GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL 41 2 135 2007
  •  Geochemistry of apatite-rich layers in the Finero phlogopite-peridotite massif (Italian Western Alps) and ion microprobe dating of apatite Tomoaki Morishita,Keiko H. Hattori,Kentaro Terada,Takuya Matsumoto,Koshi Yamamoto,Masamichi Takebe,Yoshito Ishida,Akihiro Tamura,Shoji Arai CHEMICAL GEOLOGY 251 1-4 99 2008/06
  •  Origin and significance of spinel-pyroxene symplectite in lherzolite xenoliths from Tallante, SE Spain Yohei Shimizu,Shoji Arai,Tomoaki Morishita,Yoshito Ishida MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY 94 1-2 27 2008/09
  •  A review of the utility of Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios of ostracode valves as a tool for paleoenvironmental reconstructions Tomoaki Morishita,Tatsuhiko Yamaguchi,Hisakazu Mashiba,Takahiro Kamiya The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 116 10 523 2010/10 
  •  Petrology of exotic high-Mg, Cr peridotite bodies in the Horoman Peridotite Complex, Japan MATSUFUJI Yukinobu,ARAI Shoji,MORISHITA Tomoaki,ISHIDA Yoshito Japanese Magazine of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences 35 5 231 2006 
  •  Elemental Mobilizations during Hydrothermal Alteration of Oceanic Lithosphere MORISHITA Tomoaki,NAKAMURA Kentaro,SAWAGUCHI Takashi,HARA Kaori,ARAI Shoji,KUMAGAI Hidenori J. Geogr. 117 117 220 2008/01 
  •  Direct evidence for upper mantle structure in the NW Pacific Plate: Microstructural analysis of a petit-spot peridotite xenolith Yumiko Harigane,Tomoyuki Mizukami,Tomoaki Morishita,Katsuyoshi Michibayashi,Natsue Abe,Naoto Hirano EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 302 1-2 194 2011/02
  •  The earliest mantle fabrics formed during subduction zone infancy Yumiko Harigane,Katsuyoshi Michibayashi,Tomoaki Morishita,Kenichiro Tani,Henry J. B. Dick,Osamu Ishizuka EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 377 106 2013/09
  •  Ancient melting residual periodites producing variable souce mantle beneath mid-ocean ridges: detection and geodynamic implications MORISHITA Tomoaki Journal of Geography 124 3 333 2015 
  •  Maturing processes of arc mantle deduced from ophiolites MORISHITA Tomoaki Japanese Magazine of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences 42 6 258 2013 
  •  Compositional variations in spinel-hosted pargasite inclusions in the olivine-rich rock from the oceanic crust mantle boundary zone Akihiro Tamura,Tomoaki Morishita,Satoko Ishimaru,Kaori Hara,Alessio Sanfilippo,Shoji Arai CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY 171 5 2016/05
  •  Rhenium-osmium isotope fractionation at the oceanic crust-mantle boundary Alessio Sanfilippo,Tomoaki Morishita,Ryoko Senda GEOLOGY 44 2 167 2016/02
  •  Hybrid troctolites from mid-ocean ridges: inherited mantle in the lower crust Alessio Sanfilippo,Tomoaki Morishita,Hidenori Kumagai,Kentaro Nakamura,Kyoko Okino,Kaori Hara,Akihiro Tamura,Shoji Arai LITHOS 232 124 2015/09
  •  Measurement of whole-rock trace-element composition by flux-free fused glass and LA-ICP-MS: evaluation of simple and rapid routine work Akihiro Tamura,Norikatsu Akizawa,Ryo Otsuka,Kyoko Kanayama,Marie Python,Tomoaki Morishita,Shoji Arai GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL 49 3 243 2015
  •  Grain-scale plastic deformation of chromite from podiform chromitite of the Naga-Manipur ophiolite belt, India: Implication to mantle dynamics Biswajit Ghosh,Jyotisankar Ray,Tomoaki Morishita ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS 56 199 2014/01
  •  Significance of chromian spinels from the mantle sequence of the Andaman Ophiolite, India: Paleogeodynamic implications Biswajit Ghosh,Tomoaki Morishita,Koyel Bhatta Lithos 164-167 86 2013/04
  •  Geochemistry of spinel-hosted amphibole inclusions in abyssal peridotite: insight into secondary melt formation in melt-peridotite reaction Akihiro Tamura,Tomoaki Morishita,Satoko Ishimaru,Shoji Arai CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY 167 3 2014/03
  •  Igneous sapphirine as a product of melt-peridotite interactions in the Finero Phlogopite-Peridotite Massif, Western Italian Alps Tommaso Giovanardi,Tomoaki Morishita,Alberto Zanetti,Maurizio Mazzucchelli,Riccardo Vannucci EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY 25 1 17 2013/02
  •  Major and trace element compositions of volcanic glasses recovered from the ocean floor: An example of the effective use of the "GANSEKI" database of rock samples from the deep sea floor Nauchi, R,Morishita, T,Tamura, A,Arai, S,Ichiyama, Y Journal of the geological society of Japan (Geological Society of Japan) 117 10 >591-596 2011/10 
  •  Overview of the Drilling Project on the Bend-fault Hydrology in Old Incoming Plate Morishita Tomoaki,Gou Fujie,Yamano Makoto,Nakanishi Masao,Obana Koichiro,Nakamura Yasuyuki,Saito Saneatsu,Kodaira Shuichi,Kimura Jun-ichi,Kuroda Junichiro,Ono Shigeaki JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY-CHIGAKU ZASSHI 126 2 247 2017 
  •  Drilling into deep-seated hard rocks of the oceanic plate formed at the Mid-Ocean Ridge: results and future perspectives: Deep-seated Hard Rock Drilling MORISHITA Tomoaki Journal of Geological Society of Japan 123 4 185 2017 
  •  Peridotite xenoliths from the Shiribeshi Seamount, Japan Sea: insights into mantle processes in a back-arc basin Yuji Ichiyama,Tomoaki Morishita,Akihiro Tamura,Shoji Arai CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY 171 10 2016/10
  •  Petrology of peridotite xenolith-bearing basaltic to andesitic lavas from the Shiribeshi Seamount, off northwestern Hokkaido, the Sea of Japan Yuji Ichiyama,Tomoaki Morishita,Akihiro Tamura,Shoji Arai JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES 76 48 2013/10
  •  Petit-spot lava fields off the central Chile trench induced by plate flexure Naoto Hirano,Shiki Machida,Natsue Abe,Tomoaki Morishita,Akihiro Tamura,Shoji Arai GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL 47 2 249 2013
  •  Detrital chromian spinels from beach placers of Andaman Islands, India: A perspective view of petrological characteristics and variations of the Andaman ophiolite Biswajit Ghosh,Tomoaki Morishita,Koyel Bhatta ISLAND ARC 21 3 188 2012/09
  •  Andaman-Nicobar Ophiolites, India: Origin, evolution and emplacement Biswajit Ghosh,Debaditya Bandyopadhyay,Tomoaki Morishita Geological Society Memoir 47 1 95 2017
  •  Workshop report on hard-rock drilling into mid-Cretaceous Pacific oceanic crust on the Hawaiian North Arch Morishita, T,Umino, S,Kimura, J.-I,Yamashita, M,Ono, S,Michibayashi, K,Tominaga, M,Klein, F,Garcia, M.O Scientific Drilling in press 2020
  •  Melt-fluid infiltration along detachment shear zones in oceanic core complexes: Insights from amphiboles in gabbro mylonites from the Godzilla Megamullion, Parece Vela Basin, the Philippine Sea Yumiko Harigane,Atsushi Okamoto,Tomoaki Morishita,Jonathan E. Snow,Akihiro Tamura,Hiroyuki Yamashita,Katsuyoshi Michibayashi,Yasuhiko Ohara,Shoji Arai LITHOS 344 217 2019/11
  •  A new occurrence of titanian (hydro)andradite from the Nagaland ophiolite, India: Implications for element mobility in hydrothermal environments Biswajit Ghosh,Tomoaki Morishita,Jyotisankar Ray,Akihiro Tamura,Tomoyuki Mizukami,Yusuke Soda,Thungyani N. Ovung CHEMICAL GEOLOGY 457 47 2017/05
  •  The uppermost mantle section below a remnant proto-Philippine Sea island arc: insights from the peridotite fragments from the Daito Ridge Morishita, T,Tani, K.-I,Soda, Y,Tamura, A,Mizukami, T,Ghosh, B American Mineralogist 103 1151 2018/05
  •  Occurrence of Felsic Rocks in Oceanic Gabbros from IODP Hole U1473A: Implications for Evolved Melt Migration in the Lower Oceanic Crust Du Khac Nguyen,Tomoaki Morishita,Yusuke Soda,Akihiro Tamura,Biswajit Ghosh,Yumiko Harigane,Lydéric France,Chuanzhou Liu,James H. Natland,Alessio Sanfilippo,Christopher J. MacLeod,Peter Blum,Henry J. B. Dick minerals 8 583 doi:10.3390/min8120583 2018/12
  •  Evidence of subduction-related components in sapphirine-bearing gabbroic dykes (Finero phlogopite–peridotite): Insights into the source of the Triassic–Jurassic magmatism at the Europe–Africa boundary Tommaso Giovanardiab, Alberto Zanetti, Luigi Dallai, Tomoaki Morishita, Christophe Hémond, Maurizio Mazzucchelli Lithos 356-357 2020/02
  •  Dynamic Accretion Beneath a Slow‐Spreading Ridge Segment: IODP Hole 1473A and the Atlantis Bank Oceanic Core Complex H. J. B. Dick,C. J. MacLeod,P. Blum,N. Abe,D. K. Blackman,J. A. Bowles,M. J. Cheadle,K. Cho,J. Ciazela,J. R. Deans,V. P. Edgcomb,C. Ferrando,L. France,B. Ghosh,B. Ildefonse,B. John,M. A. Kendrick,J. Koepke,J. A. M. Leong,C. Liu,Q. Ma,T. Morishita,A. Morris,J. H. Natland,T. Nozaka,O. Pluemper,A. Sanfilippo,J. B. Sylvan,M. A. Tivey,R. Tribuzio,G. Viegas Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 124 12 12631 2019/12 
  •  Petrogenesis of ultramafic rocks and olivine-rich troctolites from the East Taiwan Ophiolite in the Lichi mélange Tomoaki Morishita,Biswajit Ghosh,Yusuke Soda,Tomoyuki Mizukami,Ken-ichiro Tani,Osamu Ishizuka,Akihiro Tamura,Chihiro Komaru,Shoji Aari,Hsiao-Chin Yang,Wen-Shan Chen Mineralogy and Petrology 112 4 1 2017/12/22
  •  Titanian Clinohumite-Bearing Peridotite from the Ulamertoq Ultramafic Body in the 3.0 Ga Akia Terrane of Southern West Greenland I. Nishio,T. Morishita,K. Szilas,G. Pearson,K. Tani,A. Tamura,Y. Harigane,J.M. Guotana Geosciences 9 4 153 2019/04 
  •  Contrasting Textural and Chemical Signatures of Chromitites in the Mesoarchaean Ulamertoq Peridotite Body, Southern West Greenland Juan Miguel Guotana,Tomoaki Morishita,Ryoko Yamaguchi,Ikuya Nishio,Akihiro Tamura,Kenichiro Tani,Yumiko Harigane,Kristoffer Szilas,D. Graham Pearson Geosciences 8 doi:10.3390/geosciences8090328 2018/09 
  •  Compositional heterogeneity and melt transport in mantle beneath Mid-Atlantic Ridge constrained by peridotite, dunite, and wehrlite from Atlantis Massif Norikatsu Akizawa,Gretchen L. Früh-Green,Akihiro Tamura,Chiori Tamura,Tomoaki Morishita Lithos 354-355 2020/02
  •  Alkali basalt from the Seifu Seamount in the Sea of Japan: post-spreading magmatism in a back-arc setting Morishita T,Hirano N,Sumino H,Sato H,Shibata T,Yoshikawa M,Arai S,Nauchi R,Tamura A Solid Earth 11 1 23 2020/01
  •  Garnierite-bearing serpentinite from the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt: A signature of paleo-weathering in the Arabian Nubian Shield? Hamdy, M.M,Gamal El Dien, H,Abd,El-Wahed, M.A,Morishita, T Journal of African Earth Sciences 146 95 2018/09
  •  Petit-spot volcanoes on the oldest portion of the Pacific plate Hirano N,Machida S,Sumino H,Shimizu K,Tamura A,Morishita T,Iwano H,Sakata S,Ishii T,Arai S,Yoneda S,Danhara T,Hirata T Deep-Sea Research Part I 154 103142 2019
  •  Adakite metasomatism in a back-arc mantle periodite xenolith from the Sea of Japan Ichiyama, Y,Morishita, T,Tamura, A,Arai, S American Mineralogist 102 216 2017/02
  •  Trace element compositions of amphiboles in gabbro mylonites from the Godzilla Megamullion, Parece Vela Basin, Philippine Sea Harigane Y,Okamoto A,Morishita T,Snow JE,Tamura A,Yamashita H,Michibayashi K,Ohara Y,Arai S Lithos 344 217 2019
  •  Plastic deformation and post-deformation annealing in chromite: Mechanisms and implications Biswajit Ghosh,Santanu Misra,Tomoaki Morishita AMERICAN MINERALOGIST 102 1-2 216 2017/01
  •  Temporal and spatial mineralogical changes in clasts from Mariana serpentinite mud volcanoes: Cooling of the hot forearc-mantle at subduction initiation Yuji Ichiyama,Tatsuki Tsujimori,Patricia Fryer,Katsuyoshi Michibayashi,Akihiro Tamura,Tomoaki Morishita Lithos 384-385 2021/03
  •  Compositional Data Analysis (CoDA) of Clinopyroxene From Abyssal Peridotites I. Nishio,K. Itano,P. Waterton,A. Tamura,K. Szilas,T. Morishita Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 23 8 2022/08 
  •  No mantle residues in the Isua Supracrustal Belt P. Waterton,J.M. Guotana,I. Nishio,T. Morishita,K. Tani,S. Woodland,H. Legros,D.G. Pearson,K. Szilas Earth and Planetary Science Letters 579 117348 2022/02
  •  Metasomatic Modification of the Mesoarchaean Ulamertoq Ultramafic Body, Southern West Greenland Ikuya Nishio,Tomoaki Morishita,Keita Itano,Juan Miguel Guotana,Akihiro Tamura,Kristoffer Szilas,Yumiko Harigane,Kenichiro Tani,D Graham Pearson Journal of Petrology 63 3 2022/02/07 
  •  Systematic LREE enrichment of mantle harzburgites: The petrogenesis of San Carlos xenoliths revisited Romain Tilhac,Tomoaki Morishita,Natsumi Hanaue,Akihiro Tamura,Juan Miguel Guotana LITHOS 396 2021/09
  •  Deformation beneath Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean: From mantle flow to mantle shear in a sparsely magmatic spreading zone Yumiko Harigane,Katsuyoshi Michibayashi,Tomoaki Morishita,Akihiro Tamura,Satoshi Hashimoto,Jonathan E. Snow TECTONOPHYSICS 822 2022/01
  •  Magma‐Mush Interactions in the Lower Oceanic crust: Insights from Atlantis Bank Layered Series (Southwest Indian Ridge) M. Boulanger,L. France,C. Ferrando,B. Ildefonse,B. Ghosh,A. Sanfilippo,C.‐Z. Liu,T. Morishita,J. Koepke,O. Bruguier Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 2021/08/28
  •  Melt-rock interaction in the subarc mantle: records from the plagioclase peridotites of the southern Palawan Ophiolite, Philippines Florence Annette C. Labis,Betchaida D. Payot,Gabriel Theophilus V. Valera,Julius A. Pasco,Jesley Mei A. Dycoco,Akihiro Tamura,Tomoaki Morishita,Shoji Arai International Geology Review 63 9 1 2020/04/23 
  •  Ruthenium isotope vestige of Earth’s pre-late-veneer mantle preserved in Archaean rocks Fisher-Gödde, M., Elfers, B.-M., Münker, C., Szilas, K., Maier, W.D., Messling, N., Morishita, T., Van Kranendonk, M., Smithies, H Nature 579 240 2020/03
  •  Deserpentinization and high-pressure (eclogite-facies) metamorphic features in the Eoarchean ultramafic body from Isua, Greenland Juan Miguel Guotana,Tomoaki Morishita,Ikuya Nishio,Akihiro Tamura,Tomoyuki Mizukami,Kenichiro Tani,Yumiko Harigane,Kristoffer Szilas,D. Graham Pearson GEOSCIENCE FRONTIERS 13 1 2022/01
  •  Validation of Trace Element Analysis of Geological Materials by Single-Pulse Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) Takuya Sagawa,Akihiro Tamura,Kyoko Okino,Tomoaki Morishita Analytical Letters 2022
  •  Slab‐fluid metasomatism in the Early Paleozoic forearc mantle deduced from the Motai serpentinites, South Kitakami Belt, northeast Japan Ayaka Okamoto,Yuji Ichiyama,Akihiro Tamura,Tomoaki Morishita Island Arc 30 1 1 2021/01
  •  Origin of spinel-hosted mineral inclusions in mantle peridotite from Setogawa in the Circum-Izu Massif Serpentine Belt, central Japan: Implications for the chromitite genesis Shoji Arai,Akihiro Tamura,Makoto Miura,Tomoaki Morishita Ore Geology Reviews 140 2021
  •  Origin of the basal lherzolite of the Muslim Bagh Ophiolite, Pakistan, deduced from the trace element characteristics of clinopyroxene Aminullah Kakar,Tomoaki Morishita,Mehrab Khan,Khalid Mahmood,Akihiro Tamura,Juan Miguel Guotana,Micol Bussolesi Geological Journal 2021/09/15 
  •  Determination of whole-rock trace-element compositions of siliceous rocks using MgO-diluted fused glass and LA–ICP–MS Akihiro Tamura,Takuya Sagawa,Kyoko Okino,Tomoaki Morishita GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL 56 6 231 2022 
  •  Tectonic evolution of the Early Paleozoic proto-East Asian continental margin: Inference from Paleozoic metamorphic rocks in the South Kitakami belt, northeast Japan Yuji Ichiyama,Ayaka Okamoto,Hisatoshi Ito,Akihiro Tamura,Tomoaki Morishita Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 276 2024/12
  •  Intact Pacific oceanic crust captured as mafic xenoliths in a petit-spot volcano Kazuto Mikuni,Naoto Hirano,Shiki Machida,Norikatsu Akizawa,Shigekazu Yoneda,Akihiro Tamura,Tomoyuki Mizukami,Yasuhiro Kato,Tomoaki Morishita Marine Geology 483 2025/05
  •  Formation of Ultra‐Depleted Mantle Peridotites and Their Relationship With Boninitic Melts: An Example From the Kamuikotan Unit, Hokkaido, Japan I. Nishio,T. Morishita,A. Tamura,K. Itano,S. Takamizawa,Y. Ichiyama,S. Arai,N. Barrett,K. Szilas Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 128 2 2023/02/10 
  •  Mayodia ophiolitic complex of Arunachal Pradesh, India: a multistage evolutionary record during the Tethyan closure Sankhadeep Roy,Biswajit Ghosh,Soumi Chattopadhaya,Debaditya Bandyopadhyay,Archisman Dhar,Manojit Koley,Tomoaki Morishita,Sachin Kumar Tripathi International Geology Review 1 2024/02/06 
  •  Komatiitic parental magmas of the Archean Ujaragssuit Nunât ultramafic body, SW Greenland, identified from spinel chemistry I. Nishio,T. Morishita,P. Waterton,A. Tamura,K. Itano,S. H. Serre,J. L. Plesner,K. Takahashi,K. Tani,Y. Harigane,H. Sawada,K. Szilas Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 2025/03
  •  From rifting to emplacement: Variable mantle melting preserved in the central Palawan Ophiolite peridotites, Philippines Julius A. Pasco,B. D. Payot,G. T.V. Valera,J. M.A. Dycoco,F. A.C. Labis,A. Tamura,T. Morishita International Geology Review 65 22 3466 2023
  •  A long-lived mafic magma reservoir: Zircon evidence from a hornblende peridotite in the Hida Belt, Japan Keita Itano,Mami Takehara,Kenji Horie,Tsuyoshi Iizuka,Ikuya Nishio,Tomoaki Morishita Geology 52 1 3 2023/10/11 
  •  Contribution of carbonatite and recycled oceanic crust to petit-spot lavas on the western Pacific Plate Kazuto Mikuni,Naoto Hirano,Shiki MacHida,Hirochika Sumino,Norikatsu Akizawa,Akihiro Tamura,Tomoaki Morishita,Yasuhiro Kato Solid Earth 15 2 167 2024/02/08
  •  Granulitic xenoliths from the Eocene and Oligocene volcanic rocks in NW of Central-East Iranian microcontinent: Evidence from petrology of deep crust Samineh Rajabi,Ghodrat Torabi,Tomoaki Morishita Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen 2024/08/12
  •  Lithological structure of western Pacific lithosphere reconstructed from mantle xenoliths in a petit-spot volcano Kazuto Mikuni,Naoto Hirano,Norikatsu Akizawa,Junji Yamamoto,Shiki Machida,Akihiro Tamura,Yuuki Hagiwara,Tomoaki Morishita Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 9 1 2022/11/12 
  •  Chondritic osmium isotope composition of early Earth mantle P. Waterton,S.H. Serre,G. Pearson,S. Woodland,S.A. DuFrane,T. Morishita,K. Szilas Geochemical Perspectives Letters 31 1 2024/06 
  •  Characteristics of serpentinite cobbles from Takase and Kashima Rivers, central Japan, and their geologic implications: an example of the importance of river cobble petrology Shoji Arai,Terumi Ejima,Akihiro Tamura,Emi Wako,Tomoaki Morishita,Satoko Ishimaru The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 129 1 643 2023/12/22 
  •  A post-ophiolitic plutonism record in the Central-East Iranian Microcontinent: Evidence for Pre-Eocene age of Neo-Tethys subduction Marzieh Ghadirpour,Ghodrat Torabi,Nargess Shirdashtzadeh,Thomas C. Meisel,Tomoaki Morishita Journal of African Earth Sciences 2025/08
  •  Zircon within chromitite requires revision of the tectonic history of the Eoarchean Itsaq Gneiss complex, Greenland Hikaru Sawada,Tomoaki Morishita,Adrien Vezinet,Richard Stern,Kenichiro Tani,Ikuya Nishio,Kanta Takahashi,D. Graham Pearson,Kristoffer Szilas Geoscience Frontiers 14 6 101648 2023/11
  •  Heterogeneous Earth’s mantle drilled at an embryonic ocean Alessio Sanfilippo,Ashutosh Pandey,Norikatsu Akizawa,Eirini Poulaki,Emily Cunningham,Manon Bickert,Chao Lei,Paola Vannucchi,Emily R. Estes,Alberto Malinverno,Noriaki Abe,Agata Di Stefano,Irina Y. Filina,Qi Fu,Swanne B.L. Gontharet,Lorna E. Kearns,Ravi Kiran Koorapati,Maria Filomena Loreto,Luca Magri,Walter Menapace,Victoria L. Pavlovics,Philippe A. Pezard,Milena A. Rodriguez-Pilco,Brandon D. Shuck,Xiangyu Zhao,Carlos Garrido,Daniele Brunelli,Tomoaki Morishita,Nevio Zitellini Nature Communications 16 1 2025/12
  •  Development of oxy-symplectites in a slow-spreading lower oceanic crust: Insights from the Atlantis Bank Gabbro Massif, Southwest Indian Ridge Archisman Dhar,Biswajit Ghosh,Tomoaki Morishita,Soumi Chattopadhaya,Debaditya Bandyopadhyay,N.V. Chalapathi Rao,Lydéric France,Du K. Nguyen,Sankhadeep Roy,Manojit Koley American Mineralogist 2025/05/01
  •  Mafic veins in the mantle section of the Oman ophiolite: Petrological and geochronological insights from the Oman Drilling Project cores Yuji Ichiyama,Hisatoshi Ito,Akihiro Tamura,Tomoaki Morishita Lithos 478-479 2024/08
  •  Origin and Evolution of Ultramafic Rocks along the Sagaing Fault, Myanmar Tomoaki Morishita,Hnin Min Soe,Hla Htay,Than Htut Lwin,Juan Miguel Guotana,Akihiro Tamura,Tomoyuki Mizukami,Khin Zaw Journal of Earth Science 34 1 122 2023/02
  •  AMPHIBOLE IN ULTRA-DEPLETED PERIDOTITES FROM THE HOROKANAI OPHIOLITE, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN: BONINITE MELT TRAPPED IN THE MANTLE WEDGE Akihiro Tamura,Ikuya Nishio,Yuya Iwata,Shoji Arai,Tomoaki Morishita Ofioliti 49 1 37 2024/02/01
  •  The lower oceanic crust at ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge: The inside story Archisman Dhar,Biswajit Ghosh,Debaditya Bandyopadhyay,Tomoaki Morishita,Akihiro Tamura,Lydéric France,Du K. Nguyen,Marine Boulanger,Manojit Koley,Sankhadeep Roy,Soumi Chattopadhaya Gondwana Research 111 223 2022/11
  •  First application of scintillator-based photon-counting computed tomography to rock samples: Preliminary results and prospects Ayumi Ishiguro,Makoto Arimoto,Daichi Sato,Takahiro Tomoda,Keita Itano,Akihiro Tamura,Hironori Sugiyama,Takeshi Kawae,Mayuko Fukuyama,Jun Kataoka,Shinsuke Terazawa,Satoshi Shiota,Tomoaki Morishita American Mineralogist 109 9 1591 2024/09/01 
  •  Evidence for suboceanic small-scale convection from a “garnet”-bearing lherzolite xenolith from Aitutaki Island, Cook Islands Norikatsu Akizawa,Kazuhito Ozawa,Tetsu Kogiso,Akira Ishikawa,Akira Miyake,Yohei Igami,Simon R. Wallis,Takayoshi Nagaya,Chihiro Ohshima,Ryo Fujita,Tatsuhiko Kawamoto,Akihiro Tamura,Tomoaki Morishita,Shoji Arai,Atsushi Yasumoto Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 11 1 38 2024/07 

Conference Presentations

Others

  •  Petrology of local concentration of chromian spinel in dunite from the slow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge Morishita et al.

Arts and Fieldwork

Patent

Theme to the desired joint research

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

○「地球規模の二酸化炭素システムにおける地球深部物質の役割」(2005-)
○「沈み込み帯での炭素循環新情報発信へ:微少量グラファイトの局所炭素同位体比分析」(2011-2012) 
○「島弧深部における水・元素分別『角閃石フィルター』の存在と性能検証」(2010-2011) 
○「島弧深部熟成過程:アルバニア・オフィオライトの地殻ーマントル境界時空変動」(2009-2011) 

Competitive research funding,Contribution

Collaborative research,Consignment study

Classes (Bachelors)

○Methods for Geological Field Work(2017)
○Development of the Earth(2017)
○Tectonics of the Earth(2017)
○Treatment of Geological Materials(2017)
○Earth Science Research (1)(2017)
○Applied Geochemical Experiments(2017)
○Geometrical Experiments(2017)
○Seminar on Earth Science 2(2)(2017)
○Seminar on Earth Science 2(1)(2017)
○Lecture on Life in Campus and Society(2017)
○Practice in Geology(2017)
○Practice in Geology(2017)
○Earth Sciences 1(2017)
○Seminar on Earth Science 1(1)(2017)
○GS English Language for Undergraduates II (English for Science and Engineering)(2017)
○Seminar on Earth Science 1(2)(2017)
○Earth Science Research (2)(2017)
○GS English Language for Undergraduates I (English for Science and Engineering)(2017)
○Review of Literature on Earth Science (2)(2017)
○Guide to Biology and Earth Sciences(2017)
○Petrological Experiments(2017)
○Review of Literature on Earth Science (1)(2017)
○Review of Literature on Earth Science (2)(2016)
○International Training A(2016)
○Petrological Experiments(2016)
○Tectonics of the Earth(2016)
○Earth Science Research (2)(2016)
○Earth Science Research (1)(2016)
○Review of Literature on Earth Science (1)(2016)
○Seminar on Earth Science 1(1)(2016)
○Geometrical Experiments(2016)
○International Training A(2016)
○Lecture on Life in Campus and Society(2016)
○Seminar on Earth Science 2(1)(2016)
○Practice in Geology(2016)
○International Training B(2016)
○International Training B(2016)
○International Training B(2016)
○International Training B(2016)
○Seminar on Earth Science 2(2)(2016)
○International Training A(2016)
○Guide to Biology and Earth Sciences(2016)
○Seminar on Earth Science 1(2)(2016)
○International Training A(2016)
○Methods for Geological Field Work(2016)
○Treatment of Geological Materials(2016)
○Applied Geochemical Experiments(2016)
○Development of the Earth(2016)
○Earth Sciences 1(2016)

Classes (Graduate Schools)

○Mantle Petrology(2017)
○Research Ethics(2017)
○Research Skills B(2017)
○Special Lecture on Earth and Environmental Science(2017)
○Fundamentals of Earth and Environmental Sciences A(2017)
○Exercise of Earth and Environmental Sciences(2017)
○Geochemical Recycling A(2017)
○Geochemical Recycling B(2017)
○Research Work of Earth and Environmental Sciences(2017)
○Research Work of Earth and Environmental Sciences(2017)
○Research Skills A(2017)
○Fundamentals of Earth and Environmental Sciences B(2017)
○Advanced course for biology,bio and chemical engineerings, and geoscience(2017)
○Mantle Petrology(2017)
○Advanced course for biology,bio and chemical engineerings, and geoscience(2017)
○Mantle Petrology(2017)
○Advanced course for biology,bio and chemical engineerings, and geoscience(2017)
○Mantle Petrology(2017)
○Advanced course for biology,bio and chemical engineerings, and geoscience(2016)
○Mantle Petrology(2016)
○Research Work of Earth and Environmental Sciences(2016)
○Fundamentals of Earth and Environmental Sciences(2016)
○Research Skills A(2016)
○Exercise of Earth and Environmental Sciences(2016)
○Geochemical Recycling A(2016)
○Research Skills B(2016)
○Geochemical Recycling B(2016)
○Exercise of Earth and Environmental Sciences(2016)

International Project

International Students

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