# Research Interests

• Geological and tectonic evolutions of subduction zone.
• Serpentinization and its roles in mantle wedge
• Crustal and mantle structure beneath arc
• Mantle structure in oceanic plate
• Micro-inclusions in mantle and crustal minerals
• Application of Raman spectroscopy to geology and petrology

# Approach

• Structural geology
• Petrology
• Raman spectroscopy
• Laser ablation mass spectroscopy

# Publications

• Harigane, Y., Mizukami, T., Morishita, T., Michibayashi, K., Abe, N., and Hirano, N., 2011. Direct evidence for upper mantle structure in the NW Pacific Plate: Microstructural analysis of a petit-spot peridotite xenolith. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in press.
• Wallis, S. R., Kobayashi, H., Nishii, A., Mizukami, T. & Seto, Y., 2010. Obliteration of olivine crystallographic preferred orientation patterns in subduction related antigorite-bearing mantle peridotite: an example from the Higashi-Akaishi body, SW Japan. In 'Deformation Mechanism, Rheology & Tectonics: Microstructures, Mechanics & Anisotropy', edited by D. Prior & E. Rutter, Geological Society of London Special Issue, in press.
• Aoya, M., Kouketsu, Y., Endo, S., Shimizu, H., Mizukami, T., Nakamura, D. and Wallis, S., 2010. Seawater-derived noble gases and halogens preserved in exhumed mantle wedge peridotite. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 28, 895-914.
• Sumino, H., Burgess, R., Mizukami, T., Wallis, S. R., Holland, G. & Ballentine, C. J., 2010. Seawater-derived noble gases and halogens preserved in exhumed mantle wedge peridotite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 294, 163-172.
• Kouketsu, Y., Enami, M. and Mizukami, T., 2010. Omphacite-bearing metapelite from the Besshi region, Sambagawa metamorphic belt, Japan: Prograde eclogite facies metamorphism recorded in metasediment. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 105, 9-19.
• Hattori, K., Wallis, S., Enami, M. and Mizukami, T., 2010. Subduction of mantle wedge peridotites: Evidence from the Higashi-akaishi ultramafic body in the Sanbagawa metamorphic belt. Island Arc, 19, 192-207.
• Aoya, M., Mizukami, T., Uehara, S. and Wallis, S., 2009. High-P metamorphism, pattern of induced flow in the mantle wedge, and the link with plutonism in paired metamorphic belts. Terra Nova, 21, 67-73.
• Mizukami, T., Wallis, S., Enami, M., and Kagi, H., 2008. Forearc diamond from Japan. Geology, 36, 219-222.
• Mizukami, T., Kagi, H., Wallis, S., and Fukura, S., 2007: Pressure-induced change in the compressional behavior of the O-H bond in chrysotile: A Raman high-pressure study up to 4.5 GPa. American Mineralogist, 92, 1456-1463.
• Fukura, S., Mizukami, T., Odake, S., and Kagi, H., 2006: Factors determining the stability, resolution, and precision of a conventional Raman spectrometer. Applied Spectroscopy, 60, 946-950.
• Mizukami, T., and Wallis, S. R., 2005: Structural and petrological constraints on the tectonic evolution of the garnet-lherzolite facies Higashi-akaishi peridotite body, Sanbagawa belt, SW Japan. Tectonics, 24, TC6012, doi:10.1029/2004TC001733.PDF 4359KB
  An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright (2005) American Geophysical Union.
• Mizukami, T., Wallis, S. and Yamamoto, J., 2004: Natural examples of olivine lattice preferred orientation patterns with a flow-normal a-axis maximum. Nature, 427, 432-436. PDF 669KB
• Enami, M., Mizukami, T. and Yokoyama, K., 2004: Metamorphic evolution of garnet-bearing ultramafic rocks from the Gongen area, Sanbagawa belt, Japan. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 22, 1-15.
• Mizukami, T., 2002: Orthopyroxene and compositional layering in the Sugashima Ultramafic Mass, Mikabu belt. Jap. Mag. Mineral. Petrol. Sci., 31, 87-96.(In Japanese)

• Postal address:
  Department of Earth Science (Room 2B211),
  Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Kanazawa University,
  Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan.
• Telephone: +81-76-264-6905
• Fax: +81-76-264-6545
• E-mail address: peridot@staff.kanazawa-u.ac.jp