Profile of Akira ISHIWATARI
(Dr., Prof., Fac. Sci., Kanazawa University)

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On Jan. 1, 2004, Simon Wallis (Nagoya University) and Akira Ishiwatari (Kanazawa University) have been assigned as Editors-in-Chief of the journal "The Island Arc", the official English journal of the Geological Society of Japan published by the Blackwell Publishing, Co. Ltd., Australia. We are looking forward to receiving submission of your paper to The Island Arc!


Dr. Akira Ishiwatari has been an Associate Professor of the Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University since 1986. He grew up in Komae City (Tokyo) and came into contact with geology at Jindai High School. He graduated from Yokohama National University with a bachelor's degree, Kanazawa University with a master's degree, and the University of Tokyo with a doctoral degree for his thesis on the Yakuno ophiolite of Japan. He was a Maitre Assistant Associe of Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) University from 1982 through 1985, where he studied Alpine ophiolites. Photograph taken by A. Ushakov in the Koryak Mountains of the USSR in July 1990.
 

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This profile was published in "Episodes", Vol. 14, No. 3, p.279 (1991) in my article titled "Ophiolites in the Japanese islands: Typical segment of the circum-Pacific multiple ophiolite belts." This issue of "Episodes" was dedicated to the 29th International Geological Congress held in Kyoto (1992). The contents are still valid at the present except for the visage, which may become a little bit elderly. Akira Ishiwatari has been assigned to the professor position on July 1, 2003.


A. Ishiwatari's English Publications

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Scientific Papers (English papers only)

  1. Ishiwatari, A. (1985): Granulite-facies metacumulates of the Yakuno ophiolite, Japan: evidence for unusually thick oceanic crust. Journal of Petrology, 26, 1-30.
     

  2. Ishiwatari, A. (1985): Igneous petrogenesis of the Yakuno ophiolite (Japan) in the context of the diversity of ophiolites. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 89, 155-167.
     

  3. Ishiwatari, A. (1985): Alpine ophiolites: product of low-degree mantle melting in a Mesozoic transcurrent rift zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 76, 93-108.
     

  4. Koide, Y., Sano, S., Ishiwatari, A. and Kagami, H. (1987): Geochemistry of the Yakuno ophiolite in Southwest Japan. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Ser. IV, 22, 297-312.
     

  5. Ishiwatari, A. (1990): Yakuno ophiolite and related rocks in Maizuru terrane. In: K. Ichikawa et al. (eds.) "Pre-Cretaceous Terranes of Japan". IGC Project 224, Osaka City University. pp. 109-120.
     

  6. Ishiwatari, A., Ikeda, Y. and Koide, Y. (1990): The Yakuno ophiolite, Japan: fragments of Permian island arc and marginal basin crust with a hotspot. Proceedings of Troodos '87 Ophiolite Symposium (Malpas, J. et al. (eds.) Ophiolites: Oceanic Crust Analogues), Geological Survey Department, Cyprus. pp. 497-506.
     

  7. Hirajima, T., Ishiwatari, A., Cong, B.L., Zhang, R.Y., Banno, S. and Nozaka, T. (1990): Coesite from Mengzhong eclogite at Donghai county, northeastern Jiangsu Province, China. Min. Mag., 54, 579-583.
     

  8. Ishiwatari, A. (1991): Time-space distribution and petrologic diversity of Japanese ophiolites. Proceedings of Oman '90 Ophiolite Symposium (Peters, Tj. et al. (eds.) Ophiolite Genesis and Evolution of Oceanic Lithosphere), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 723-743.
     

  9. Ishiwatari, A. (1991): Ophiolites in the Japanese Islands: Typical segment of the circum-Pacific multiple ophiolite belts. Episodes, 14 (Japan Issue), 274-279.

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  10. Ishiwatari, A. (1992) Petrology, Geochemistry, and Mineralogy of the Early Cretaceous evolved N-MORB from Sites 765 and 766, Eastern Indian Ocean. In: Gradstein, F.M., Ludden, J.N. et al. (eds.) Proc. Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, Vol. 123. pp. 201-213. College Station, Texas.
     

  11. Ishiwatari, A. and Hayasaka, Y. (1992) Ophiolite nappes and blueschists of the Inner Zone of Southwest Japan. 29th IGC Field Trip Guidebook, Vol. 5, pp. 285-325. Geological Survey of Japan.
     

  12. Nakajima, T., Ishiwatari, A., Sano, S., Kunugiza, K., Okamura, M., Kano, T., Sohma, T. and Hayasaka, Y. (1992) Geotraverse across the Southwest Japan arc: An overview of tectonic setting of Southwest Japan. 29th IGC Field Trip Guidebook, Vol. 5, pp. 171-253. Geological Survey of Japan.
     

  13. Wang, Q., Zhao, Z., Ishiwatari, A., Sun, J. (1992) High pressure assemblages in the Tuofeng Gneiss, Donghai, China. Mem. Lithosph. Tect. Evol. Res. (Acad. Sinica), No. 1, 95-101.
     

  14. Wang, Q., Ishiwatari, A., Zhao, Z., Cong, B., Hirajima, T., Enami, M. and Zhai, M. (1993) Coesite-bearing granulite retrograded from eclogite in Weihai, eastern China. European Journal of Mineralogy, 5, 141-152.
     

  15. Ishiwatari, A. (1994) Circum-Pacific Phanerozoic multiple ophiolite belts. In: A. Ishiwatari et al. (Eds.) "Circum-Pacific Ophiolites: Proceedings of the 29th IGC Ophiolite Symposium", pp. 7-28. VSP Publ. Netherlands.
     

  16. Yakubchuk, A.S., Nikishin, A.M., Ishiwatari, A. (1994) Late Proterozoic ophiolite pulse. In: In: A. Ishiwatari et al. (Eds.) "Circum-Pacific Ophiolites: Proceedings of the 29th IGC Ophiolite Symposium", pp. 275-288. VSP Publ. Netherlands.
     

  17. Toramaru, A., Ishiwatari, A., Matsuzawa, M., Nakamura, M., Arai, S. (1996) Vesicle layering in solidified intrusive magma bodies: a newly recognized type of igneous structure. Bull. Volc., 58, 393-400.
     

  18. Wallis, S.R., Ishiwatari, A., Hirajima, T., Ye, K., Guo, J., Nakamura, D., Kato, T., Zhai, M., Enami, M., Cong, B., Banno, S. (1997) Occurrence and field relationships of UHP meta-granitoid and coesite eclogite in the Su-Lu terrane, Eastern China. J. Geol. Soc. London, 154, 45-54.
     

  19. Tsujimori, T., Saito, D., Ishiwatari, A., Miyashita, S., Sokolov, S.D. (1999) Electron microprobe element image of zoned chromian spinel with hydrous mineral inclusions in a chromitite from Elistratova ophiolite, Far East Russia. Sci. Rep., Kanazawa Univ., 43, No. 2, 1-11.
     

  20. Tsujimori, T., Ishiwatari, A., Banno, S. (2000) Discovery of eclogitic glaucophane schist from the Omi area, Renge metamorphic blet, the Inner Zone of southwestern Japan. J. Geol. Soc. Japan, 106, I-II. (Color Page).
     

  21. Banno, S., Enami, M., Hirajima, T., Ishiwatari, A., Wang, Q.C. (2000) Decompression P-T path of coesite eclogite to granulite from Weihai, eastern China. Lithos, 52, 97-108.
     

  22. Ishiwatari, A. and Tsujimori, T. (2001) Late Paleozoic high-pressure metamorphic belts in Japan and Sikhote-Alin: Possible oceanic extension of the Chinese Dabie-Su-Lu suture detouring Korea. Gondwana Research, 4, 636-638.
     

  23. Shcheka, S.A., Ishiwatari, A. and Vrzhosek, A.A. (2001) Geology and petrology of Cambrian Khanka ophiolite in Primorye (Far East Russia) with notes on its manganese-rich chromian spinel. Earth Science (Chikyu Kagaku), 55, 265-274.
     

  24. Bazylev, B.A., Palandzhjan, S.A., Ganelin, A.V., Silantyev, S.A., Ishiwatari, A. and Dmitrenko, G.G. (2001) Petrology of peridotites from the ophiolite melange in Cape Povorotny, Taigonos Peninsula, NE Russia: Mantle processes beneath a subduction zone. Petrology, 9, no. 2, 142-160.
  25. Walker, R.J., Prichard, H.M., Ishiwatari, A. and Pimentel, M. (2002) The osmium isotopic composition of convecting upper mantle deduced from ophiolite chromites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 66, 329-345.
  26. López, J. C. and Ishiwatari, A. (2002) Petrogenesis of the tholeiitic basalt, calc-alkaline basaltic andesite and high magnesian andesite lava succession of the Oligo-Miocene Anamizu Formation in northeastern Noto Peninsula, central Japan. Jour. Min. Petr. Sci., 97, 85-113. 
     

  27. Tsujimori, T. and Ishiwatari, A. (2002) Granulite facies relics in the Early Paleozoic kyanite-bearing ultrabasic metacumulate in the Oeyama belt, the Inner Zone of southwestern Japan. Gondwana Research, 5, 823-835.
     

  28. Ishiwatari, A. and Tsujimori, A. (2003) Paleozoic ophiolites and blueschists in Japan and Russian Primorye in the tectonic framework of East Asia: a synthesis. The Island Arc, 12, 190-206.
     

  29. Ishiwatari, A., Sokolov, S.D. and Vysotskiy, S.V. (2003) Petrological diversity and origin of ophiolites in Japan and Far East Russia with emphasis on depleted harzburgite. In: Dilek, Y. and  Robinson, P. T. (eds) "Ophiolites in Earth History", Geological Society of London Special Publication, 218, 597-617.
     

  30. Ichiyama, Y. and Ishiwatari, A. (2004) Petrochemical evidence for off-ridge magmatism in a backarc setting from the Yakuno ophiolite, Japan. The Island Arc, 13(1), 157-177.
     

  31. Ishiwatari, A. and Ichiyama, Y. (2004) Alaskan-type plutons and ultramafic lavas in Far East Russia, Northeast China and Japan. International Geology Review, 46, 316-331. (This paper is re-published in the following book: Ernst, W.G. (ed) Serpentine and serpentinites: Mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, ecology, geophysics, and tectonics (A tribute to Robert G. Coleman, International Book Series, Vol. 8). pp. 186-201. Geological Society of America. Bellwether Publishing, Ltd. (2004)).
     

  32.  Yoshida, D., Hirajima, T. and Ishiwatari, A. (2004) Pressure-Temperature Path Recorded in the Yangkou Garnet Peridotite, in Su-Lu Ultrahigh-pressure Metamorphic Belt, Eastern China. Journal of Petrology, 45, 1125-1145.
     
  33. Ichiyama, Y., Ishiwatari, A. (2005) HFSE-rich picritic rocks from the Mino accretionary complex, southwestern Japan. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 149, 373-387.
     
  34. Koizumi, K., Ishiwatari, A. (2006) Oceanic plateau accretion inferred from Late Paleozoic greenstones in the Jurassic Tamba accretionary complex, Southwest Japan. Island Arc, 15 (1), 58-83.
     
  35. Ishiwatari, A., Yanagida, Y., Li, Y.-B., Ishii, T., Haraguchi, S., Koizumi, K., Ichiyama, Y. and Umeka, M. (2006) Dredge petrology of boninite- and adakite-bearing Hahajima Seamount of Ogasawara (Bonin) forearc: an ophiolite or a serpentinite seamount? Island Arc, 15(1), 102-118.
     
  36. Ichiyama, Y., Ishiwatari, A., Hirahara, Y., Shuto, K. (2006) Geochemical and isotopic constraints on the genesis of the Permian ferropicritic rocks from the Mino-Tamba belt, SW Japan. Lithos, 89, 47-65.
     
  37. Ishiwatari, A., Ledneva, G.V., Bazylev, B.A., Hayasaka, Y., Palandzhyan, S.A., Morozov, O.L., Koizumi, K., Stcherbakov, V.D., Sokolov, S.D. (2007) Garnet metagabbro-ultramafic complexes in the Pekulney Range, Northeast Russia. Island Arc, 16(1), 1-3.
     
  38. Ichiyama, Y., Ishiwatari, A., Koizumi, K., Ishida, Y., Machi, S. (2007) Olivine-spinifex basalt from the Tamba belt, Southwest Japan: Evidence for Fe- and high field strength element-rich volcanism in Permian Ocean. Island Arc, 16(3), 493-503.
     
  39. Ichiyama, Y., Ishiwatari, A., Koizumi, K. (2007) Petrogenesis of the greenstones from the Mino-Tamba belt, SW Japan: evidence for an accreted Permian oceanic plateau. Lithos (LIP Special Issue) (in press).
     

 

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Books, Reviews, etc.

  1. Gradstein, F.M., Ludden, J., Adamson, A.C., Baumgartner, P.O., Beausillon, R., Bolmer, T., Bown, P.R., Brereton, R., Buffler, R., Castillo, D., Compton, J., Dumoulin, J.A., Griffiths, C.M., Haig, D., Heggie, D., Ishiwatari, A., Kaminski, M.A., Kodama, K., Kopaska-Merkel, D.C., Marcoux, J.P., McMinn, A., Moran, M.J., Mutterlose, J., Ogg, J.G, O'Neill, B., Plank T., Riggins, M., Schott, M., Simmons, G., Thurow, J. (1990): Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Itinital Reports, Vol. 123. College Station, Texas. (A. Ishiwatari's parts: pp. 179-189 (Site 765 Basement Petrography) and pp. 313-321 (Site 766 Igneous Rock Lithostratigraphy and Petrography)).
     

  2. Ishiwatari, A., Malpas, J. and Ishizuka, H. (Editors) (1994) Circum-Pacific Ophiolites. (Proceedings of the 29th International Geological Congress, Ophiolite Symposium). VSP Publishers. The Netherlands. 288 pp.
     

  3. Ishiwatari, A. (1996) Book review: "Backarc Basins: Tectonics and Magmatism" by Brian Taylor (Editor), 1995. Plenum Press, New York. Lithos, 38, 271-272.
     

  4. Ishiwatari, A. and Kato, T. (2001) Identification chart for the rock-forming minerals by polarizing microscope and interference color chart (colored hard plastic plate). The Geological Society of Japan.
     

  5. Ishiwatari, A. and Wallis, S. (2006) A new-look journal. Island Arc, 15(1), 1.
     

  6. Ishiwatari, A., Wallis, S., Takeuchi, K. and Tsunogae, T. (2007) Dual publication. Island Arc, 16(2), 211.

 

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1999/05/21 Established, 2007/11/26 Revised