Research Interests

1. Ophiolites in Circum-Pacific areas [next]

  • Paleozoic Yakuno Ophiolite, southwestern Japan.
  • (Oi-Takahama, Maizuru-Ayabe, Ohara, Kamigori and Yamaga areas)
  • Engaged student: D. Saito (graduated 1999)
  • Paleozoic Oeyama Ophiolite, southwestern Japan.
  • (Oeyama, Izushi, Sekinomiya, Wakasa, and Osayama areas)
  • Engaged student: T. Tsujimori (JSPS Research Fellow)
  • Paleozoic greenstone in the Jurassic accretionary complex.
  • (Obama area, Tamba zone and Ryozen area, Akiyoshi zone?)
  • Engaged student: T. Muto (M1)
  • Paleozoic Sergeevka Metagabbro, Primorye, Russia.
  • (Sergeevka, Chuguevka, Kalinovka and Bikin areas)
  • Engaged student: T. Tsujimori (JSPS Research Fellow)
  • *This is a cooperative research with Prof. A.I. Khanchuk and Dr. S. V. Vysotskiy, Far-East Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Scineces (Vladivostok).
  • Jurassic? Elistratova Ophiolite, northeastern Russia and other ophiolites at Cape Povorotnyi, Cape Nablyu- deniy and Kemgeveem areas in Taigonos Peninsula.

    • 2. Island arc volcanic rocks [next] [back] [top]

  • Miocene moonstone rhyolite welded tuff at Mt. Wasso, Ishikawa Pref. and peculiar chemical change in it.
  • Miocene shoshonite-series cpx basalt dikes in Green Tuff to the south of Kanazawa.
  • Miocene pigeonite-phyric andesite in Mikuni Town, Fukui Prefecture (near Tojimbo).
  • Miocene high-K basalt-andesite-dacite in Noto Peninsula
  • Miocene rhyolite and pitchstone in Iozen area, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture.
  • Miocene Arashimadake cauldron, Ono City, Fukui Pref.
  • Volcanic stratigraphy of Miocene Green Tuff in Noto Peninsula.

    • 3. Metamorphic rocks in the circum-Pacific orogenic belts [next] [back] [top]

  • Paleozoic Sangun-Renge blueschist, southwestern Japan.
  • (Omi-Renge, Ise, Oya, Wakasa and Osayama areas)
  • Engaged student: T. Tsujimori (JSPS Research Fellow) and H. Ito (graduated 1999)
  • Paleozoic gneiss in the Hida Mountains
  • (Upper Tetori River area, Ishikawa Prefecture)
  • Engaged student: Fuxi JIN (graduated 1997)
  • Pelitic, basic and ultrabasic contact metamorphic rocks around Mesozoic granite in Oura Peninsula, Maizuru city

    • 4. Monitoring of chemistry and temperature of groundwater aiming at earthquake prediction [back] [top]

  • Continuous monitoring at Hoshima spring, Kanazawa City.

    • 5. Research of the Morimoto Active Fault in Kanazawa City

  • Serving as a member of the Morimoto Active Fault Research Committee of Ishikawa Prefecture.

    • 6. Neagari Meteorite

  • Studied and reported a stone meteorite (L6 chondrite) which hit a car parked in Neagari Town, Ishikawa Pref. at midnight of 18 Feb. 1995 (14:55 GMT).

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