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  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

John Wakabayashi is affiliated with California State University, Fresno in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on geophysics, artificial intelligence, atmospheric science, paleontology, and geology.

The main topics addressed in John Wakabayashi's work include geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geology and paleoclimatology research, evolution and paleontology studies, and geological studies and exploration.

Recent publications by John Wakabayashi cover a range of geological subjects:

  • Sub-parallel ridge-trench interaction and an alternative model for the Silurian-Devonian archipelago in Western Junggar and North-Central Tianshan in NW China, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Phylogeography of Ryukyu insular cicadas: Extensive vicariance by island isolation vs accidental dispersal by super typhoon, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • The forearc ophiolites of California formed during trench-parallel spreading: Kinematic reconstruction of the western USA Cordillera since the Jurassic, 2023, Earth-Science Reviews
  • A Fragment of Argoland From East Gondwana in the NE Himalaya, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Configuration of Carbonatite Constrained in Preintrusion Transpositional Foliation in the Bayan Obo Giant Rare Earth Element Deposit, China, 2024, Economic Geology

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Soichi Osozawa
  • Ji'en Zhang
  • David H. Shimabukuro
  • Wenjiao Xiao
  • Erica Sanborn

John Wakabayashi's work has been published repeatedly in several venues, notably:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • F1000Research
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin

They have received recognition as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Recognition of ocean plate stratigraphy in accretionary orogens through Earth history: A record of 3.8billion years of sea floor spreading, subduction, and accretion

    T.M. Kusky;B.F. Windley;I. Safonova;K. Wakita

  • Anatomy of a subduction complex: architecture of the Franciscan Complex, California, at multiple length and time scales

    John Wakabayashi

  • Stream Incision, Tectonics, Uplift, and Evolution of Topography of the Sierra Nevada, California

    John Wakabayashi;Thomas L. Sawyer

  • What constitutes ‘emplacement’ of an ophiolite?: Mechanisms and relationship to subduction initiation and formation of metamorphic soles

    John Wakabayashi;Yildirim Dilek

  • Franciscan subduction off to a slow start: evidence from high-precision Lu-Hf garnet ages on high grade-blocks

    Robert Anczkiewicz;Robert Anczkiewicz;John P. Platt;Matthew F. Thirlwall;John Wakabayashi

  • Counterclockwise P-T-t Paths from Amphibolites, Franciscan Complex, California: Relics from the Early Stages of Subduction Zone Metamorphism

    John Wakabayashi

  • Nappes, tectonics of oblique plate convergence, and metamorphic evolution related to 140 million years of continuous subduction, Franciscan Complex, California

    John Wakabayashi

  • Palaeogeographic reconstruction of the 1.55 Ma synchronous isolation of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and Taiwan and inflow of the Kuroshio warm current

    Soichi Osozawa;Ryuichi Shinjo;Alroem Armid;Yasushi Watanabe

  • Early Cretaceous transition from nonaccretionary behavior to strongly accretionary behavior within the Franciscan subduction complex

    Trevor A. Dumitru;John Wakabayashi;James E. Wright;Joseph L. Wooden

  • Mélanges of the Franciscan Complex, California: Diverse structural settings, evidence for sedimentary mixing, and their connection to subduction processes

    John Wakabayashi

  • Subducted sedimentary serpentinite mélanges: Record of multiple burial–exhumation cycles and subduction erosion

    John Wakabayashi

  • Spatial and temporal relationships between ophiolites and their metamorphic soles: A test of models of forearc ophiolite genesis

    John Wakabayashi;Yildirim Dilek

  • 40Ar/39Ar Ages from Coherent, High-Pressure Metamorphic Rocks of the Franciscan Complex, California: Revisiting the Timing of Metamorphism of the World's Type Subduction Complex

    John Wakabayashi;Trevor A. Dumitru

  • Four-dimensional transform fault processes: progressive evolution of step-overs and bends

    John Wakabayashi;James V. Hengesh;Thomas L. Sawyer

  • Franciscan eclogite revisited: Reevaluation of the P – T evolution of tectonic blocks from Tiburon Peninsula, California, U.S.A.

    T. Tsujimori;K. Matsumoto;J. Wakabayashi;J. G. Liou

  • Suprasubduction-zone ophiolite generation, emplacement, and initiation of subduction: A perspective from geochemistry, metamorphism, geochronology, and regional geology

    John Wakabayashi;Arundhuti Ghatak;Asish R. Basu

  • Distribution of displacement on and evolution of a young transform fault system: The northern San Andreas fault system, California

    John Wakabayashi

  • Detrital zircon evidence for progressive underthrusting in Franciscan metagraywackes, west-central California

    Cameron A. Snow;John Wakabayashi;W.G. Ernst;Joseph L. Wooden

  • Geochemistry and geochronology of the Troodos ophiolite: An SSZ ophiolite generated by subduction initiation and an extended episode of ridge subduction?

    Soichi Osozawa;Ryuichi Shinjo;Ching Hua Lo;Bor Ming Jahn

  • Structural context and variation of ocean plate stratigraphy, Franciscan Complex, California: insight into mélange origins and subduction-accretion processes

    John Wakabayashi

  • Subduction and the rock record: Concepts developed in the Franciscan Complex, California

    John Wakabayashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Asish R. Basu
Asish R. Basu The University of Texas at Arlington
Wenjiao Xiao
Wenjiao Xiao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Trevor A. Dumitru
Trevor A. Dumitru Stanford University
Yildirim Dilek
Yildirim Dilek Miami University
Juhn G. Liou
Juhn G. Liou Stanford University
Eldridge M. Moores
Eldridge M. Moores University of California, Davis
Tatsuki Tsujimori
Tatsuki Tsujimori Tohoku University
Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez University of California, Berkeley
Brian F. Windley
Brian F. Windley University of Leicester
Ryuichi Shinjo
Ryuichi Shinjo University of the Ryukyus

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