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Katsuyoshi Michibayashi

Katsuyoshi Michibayashi

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Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
4607
World Ranking
6602
National Ranking
189

Overview

Katsuyoshi Michibayashi is a researcher affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their academic contributions focus extensively on the geophysical and geochemical characteristics of the Earth's crust and mantle, with a strong emphasis on subduction processes, mantle wedge dynamics, and related geological phenomena.

Their body of work covers main fields such as Earth and Planetary Sciences, with subfields in Geophysics, Environmental Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ocean Engineering, and Molecular Biology. The topics researched include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Michibayashi include Jeffrey G. Ryan, Walter Kurz, John W. Shervais, Yuji Ichiyama, and C.G. Wheat.

Michibayashi's research has been published predominantly in the venue Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), with other works appearing in the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Lithos, Tectonophysics, and the Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences.

The following recent papers illustrate the scope and diversity of their research contributions:

  • Mariana serpentinite mud volcanism exhumes subducted seamount materials: implications for the origin of life, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Initial Results From the Oman Drilling Project Multi-Borehole Observatory: Petrogenesis and Ongoing Alteration of Mantle Peridotite in the Weathering Horizon, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Listvenite Formation During Mass Transfer into the Leading Edge of the Mantle Wedge: Initial Results from Oman Drilling Project Hole BT1B, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Permeability Profiles Across the Crust-Mantle Sections in the Oman Drilling Project Inferred From Dry and Wet Resistivity Data, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geochemical characteristics of back-arc basin lower crust and upper mantle at final spreading stage of Shikoku Basin: an example of Mado Megamullion, 2021, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Best Publications

  • Trench-parallel anisotropy produced by serpentine deformation in the hydrated mantle wedge

    Ikuo Katayama;Ken-ichi Hirauchi;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Jun-ichi Ando

  • Subduction initiation and ophiolite crust: new insights from IODP drilling

    Mark K. Reagan;Julian A. Pearce;Katerina Petronotis;Renat R. Almeev

  • The Role of Pre-existing Mechanical Anisotropy on Shear Zone Development within Oceanic Mantle Lithosphere: an Example from the Oman Ophiolite

    Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;David Mainprice

  • A serpentinite-hosted ecosystem in the Southern Mariana Forearc

    Yasuhiko Ohara;Mark K. Reagan;Katsunori Fujikura;Hiromi Watanabe

  • Infrared microspectroscopy analysis of water distribution in deformed and metamorphosed rocks

    Satoru Nakashima;Hiromi Matayoshi;Takako Yuko;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi

  • Petrology of Peridotite Xenoliths from Iraya Volcano, Philippines, and its Implication for Dynamic Mantle-Wedge Processes

    S. Arai

  • Drilling constraints on lithospheric accretion and evolution at Atlantis Massif, Mid‐Atlantic Ridge 30°N

    D. K. Blackman;B. Ildefonse;B. E. John;Y. Ohara

  • Magnitude and symmetry of seismic anisotropy in mica- and amphibole-bearing metamorphic rocks and implications for tectonic interpretation of seismic data from the southeast Tibetan Plateau

    Shaocheng Ji;Tongbin Shao;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Shoma Oya

  • A new calibration of seismic velocities, anisotropy, fabrics, and elastic moduli of amphibole-rich rocks

    Shaocheng Ji;Tongbin Shao;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Changxing Long

  • Poisson's Ratio and Auxetic Properties of Natural Rocks

    Shaocheng Ji;Le Li;Hem Bahadur Motra;Frank Wuttke

  • Propagation of seismic slip from brittle to ductile crust: Evidence from pseudotachylyte of the Woodroffe thrust, central Australia

    Aiming Lin;Tadashi Maruyama;Stallard Aaron;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi

  • Shape preferred orientation of rigid particles in a viscous matrix: reevaluation to determine kinematic parameters of ductile deformation

    Toshiaki Masuda;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Hirobumi Ohta

  • The effect of dynamic recrystallization on olivine fabric and seismic anisotropy: Insight from a ductile shear zone, Oman ophiolite

    Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Toshiki Ina;Kyuichi Kanagawa

  • B-type olivine fabrics developed in the fore-arc side of the mantle wedge along a subducting slab

    Miki Tasaka;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;David Mainprice

  • A database of plagioclase crystal preferred orientations (CPO) and microstructures - implications for CPO origin, strength, symmetry and seismic anisotropy in gabbroic rocks

    Takako Satsukawa;Takako Satsukawa;Takako Satsukawa;Benoit Ildefonse;David Mainprice;Luis Morales

  • Initial Results From the Oman Drilling Project Multi‐Borehole Observatory: Petrogenesis and Ongoing Alteration of Mantle Peridotite in the Weathering Horizon

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  • Spatial variations in antigorite fabric across a serpentinite subduction channel : Insights from the Ohmachi Seamount, Izu-Bonin frontal arc

    Ken-ichi Hirauchi;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Hayato Ueda;Ikuo Katayama

  • Natural olivine crystal-fabrics in the western Pacific convergence region: A new method to identify fabric type

    Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;David Mainprice;Ayano Fujii;Shigeki Uehara

  • Mariana serpentinite mud volcanism exhumes subducted seamount materials: implications for the origin of life

    Patricia Fryer;C Geoffrey Wheat;Trevor Williams;Christopher Kelley

  • In situ carbon mineralization in ultramafic rocks: Natural processes and possible engineered methods

    P.B. Kelemen;R. Aines;E. Bennett;S.M. Benson

  • Mantle hydration along outer-rise faults inferred from serpentinite permeability.

    Kohei Hatakeyama;Ikuo Katayama;Ken-ichi Hirauchi;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi

  • Variable microstructure of peridotite samples from the southern Mariana Trench: evidence of a complex tectonic evolution

    Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Miki Tasaka;Yasuhiko Ohara;Teruaki Ishii

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter B. Kelemen
Peter B. Kelemen Columbia University
Damon A. H. Teagle
Damon A. H. Teagle University of Southampton
Ikuo Katayama
Ikuo Katayama Hiroshima University
Tomoaki Morishita
Tomoaki Morishita Kanazawa University
Marguerite Godard
Marguerite Godard University of Montpellier
John W. Shervais
John W. Shervais Utah State University
Patricia Fryer
Patricia Fryer University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jeffrey G. Ryan
Jeffrey G. Ryan University of South Florida
Jonathan E. Snow
Jonathan E. Snow Louisiana State University
Teruaki Ishii
Teruaki Ishii Shizuoka University

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