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Earth Science

D-Index
30
Citations
3936
World Ranking
9083
National Ranking
283

Best Publications

  • The timescales of subduction initiation and subsequent evolution of an oceanic island arc

    Osamu Ishizuka;Osamu Ishizuka;Kenichiro Tani;Mark K. Reagan;Kyoko Kanayama

  • Contribution of slab melting and slab dehydration to magmatism in the NE Japan arc for the last 25 Myr: Constraints from geochemistry

    Takeshi Hanyu;Yoshiyuki Tatsumi;Shun'ichi Nakai;Qing Chang

  • An inter‐laboratory evaluation of OD‐3 zircon for use as a secondary U–Pb dating standard

    Hideki Iwano;Yuji Orihashi;Takafumi Hirata;Masatsugu Ogasawara

  • Izu-Bonin-Mariana Forearc Crust as a Modern Ophiolite Analogue

    Osamu Ishizuka;Osamu Ishizuka;Kenichiro Tani;Mark K. Reagan

  • Structure and growth of the Izu‐Bonin‐Mariana arc crust: 2. Role of crust‐mantle transformation and the transparent Moho in arc crust evolution

    Y. Tatsumi;H. Shukuno;K. Tani;N. Takahashi

  • The largest deep-ocean silicic volcanic eruption of the past century.

    Rebecca Carey;S. Adam Soule;Michael Manga;James D. L. White

  • Spectroscopic FTIR imaging of water species in silicic volcanic glasses and melt inclusions: An example from the Izu-Bonin arc

    Richard Wysoczanski;Kenichiro Tani

  • Origin of silicic magmas and the compositional gap at Sumisu submarine caldera, Izu-Bonin arc, Japan

    H. Shukuno;Y. Tamura;K. Tani;Q. Chang

  • Geochronology of the Zambezi Supracrustal Sequence, Southern Zambia: A Record of Neoproterozoic Divergent Processes along the Southern Margin of the Congo Craton

    S. P. Johnson;B. De Waele;D. Evans;W. Banda

  • Are Arc Basalts Dry, Wet, or Both? Evidence from the Sumisu Caldera Volcano, Izu-Bonin Arc, Japan

    Y. Tamura;K. Tani;O. Ishizuka;Q. Chang

  • Diversity of melt conduits in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc mantle: Implications for the earliest stage of arc magmatism

    Tomoaki Morishita;Tomoaki Morishita;Kenichiro Tani;Hiroshi Shukuno;Yumiko Harigane

  • Syncollisional rapid granitic magma formation in an arc-arc collision zone: Evidence from the Tanzawa plutonic complex, Japan

    Kenichiro Tani;Daniel J. Dunkley;Jun-Ichi Kimura;Richard J. Wysoczanski

  • Wet and Dry Basalt Magma Evolution at Torishima Volcano, Izu-Bonin Arc, Japan: the Possible Role of Phengite in the Downgoing Slab

    Y. Tamura;K. Tani;Q. Chang;H. Shukuno

  • The Petrology and Geochemistry of Oto-Zan Composite Lava Flow on Shodo-Shima Island, SW Japan: Remelting of a Solidified High-Mg Andesite Magma

    Y. Tatsumi;T. Suzuki;H. Kawabata;K. Sato

  • Accounting for the species-dependence of the 3500 cm-1 H2Ot infrared molar absorptivity coefficient : implications for hydrated volcanic glasses.

    Iona M. McIntosh;Alexander R.L. Nichols;Kenichiro Tani;Edward W. Llewellin

  • The pumice raft-forming 2012 Havre submarine eruption was effusive

    Michael Manga;Kristen E. Fauria;Kristen E. Fauria;Christina Lin;Samuel J. Mitchell

  • Computerized X-ray tomography analysis of three-dimensional fault geometries in basement-induced wre

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  • Neoproterozoic to Early Triassic tectono-stratigraphic evolution of Indochina and adjacent areas: A review with new data

    Tri Van Tran;Michel Faure;Vuong Van Nguyen;Hoang Huy Bui

  • Termination of backarc spreading: Zircon dating of a giant oceanic core complex

    Kenichiro Tani;Daniel J. Dunkley;Yasuhiko Ohara

  • Missing western half of the Pacific Plate: Geochemical nature of the Izanagi-Pacific Ridge interaction with a stationary boundary between the Indian and Pacific mantles

    Takashi Miyazaki;Jun Ichi Kimura;Ryoko Senda;Bogdan S. Vaglarov

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