Members

Members and research themes

Kohtaro Ujiie (Professor)

Thomas Yeo (Researcher)

Coseismic ductile deformation on active faults

Akane Yamamoto (PhD student)

Opening processes of back-arc basin

Yuto Yamasaki (PhD student)

Fluid sources in deep slow earthquake regions

Joao Vitor Fraga Menchick (PhD student)

Frictional healing on megathrusts and in earthquake swarm regions

Shota Komagino (MS student)

Deformation mechanisms of quartz in plate boundary rocks deformed in deep slow earthquake source regions

Suzu Nazuka (MS student)

Frictional healing on shallow megathrust in the Japan Trench subduction zone

Jiang Xianfeng (MS student)

Metasomatism at the crust-mantle interface

Reina Onozawa (MS student)

Rheological profiles in subduction and continent–continent collision zones

Keitaro Mikawa (MS student)

TBD

Kyoka Matsuo (BS student)

Coseismic deformation along thrust faults in a Jurassic accretionary complex

Shiori Doi (BS student)

Creep behavior and fluid–rock reactions in shear zones of the Taiwan arc-continent collision zone

Recent graduates and research themes

Shota Mita (BS student)

Relationship between mineral composition and fault slip localization

Madison Frank (PhD)

Deformation mechanisms and rheology of mélange shear zones associated with seamount subduction

Mizuki Ueda (MS)

Geological and experimental investigations of slow slip in the Japan Trench subduction zone

Hisaki Yamamoto (MS)

Origin of fluid responsible for silica precipitation in source area of deep slow earthquakes

Naoki Nishiyama (Researcher)

Fluid-rock interactions in subduction zones

Ginta Motohashi (PhD)

Origin of basaltic intrusive rocks in the Chichibu accretionary complex of Amami-Oshima Island, Ryukyu Arc

Wang Ding (PhD)

Effects of deep-sea anoxic events on thrust faulting in subduction zone: insights from the Jurassic accretionary complex in the Chichibu and Mino Belts

Kaoru Inoue (MS)

Development of crystallographic preferred orientation during shallow coseismic slip in limestone

Minoru Yamashita (MS)

Deformation and metamorphic conditions of metabasite and metapelite in Tomuru metamorphic rocks of Ishigaki Island, Ryukyu Arc

Terumi Ojima (MS)

Metasomatic reactions between basalt and pelite in the Naze Formation of the Shimanto accretionary complex

Kazuya Noro (MS)

Metasomatic reactions and localization of ductile shear observed in subduction mélanges exhumed from source depths of deep slow earthquakes

Haruna Masuyama (MS)

Changes in temperature and deformation mechanism during subduction: insights from Raman geothermometer and microstructures of pelitic schist in subduction mélanges

Ayaka Nagate (MS)

Frictional melting and thermal fracturing recorded in the pseudotachylyte derived from pelagic sedimentary rocks

Chizuru Ozawa (MS)

Geochemical evidence for source materials of frictional melt: an example from the pseudotachylyte in the Jurassic accretionary complex, central Japan