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Kouki Kitajima is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions to subfields such as Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Paleontology.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, including Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Astro and Planetary Science, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Planetary Science and Exploration, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, earthquake and tectonic studies, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Frequent publication venues for Kouki Kitajima include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Science Advances
  • American Mineralogist
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

The scientist has co-authored numerous publications with researchers such as John W. Valley, N. T. Kita, Tsuyoshi Iizuka, Tetsuya Yokoyama, and K. Nagashima.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kouki Kitajima include:

  • Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu are similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites, 2022, Science
  • Ryugu's nucleosynthetic heritage from the outskirts of the Solar System, 2022, Science Advances
  • Oxygen isotopes of anhydrous primary minerals show kinship between asteroid Ryugu and comet 81P/Wild2, 2022, Science Advances
  • Destabilization of Long-Lived Hadean Protocrust and the Onset of Pervasive Hydrous Melting at 3.8 Ga, 2022, AGU Advances
  • Contribution of Ryugu-like material to Earth's volatile inventory by Cu and Zn isotopic analysis, 2022, Nature Astronomy

Best Publications

  • Magmatic evolution and crustal recycling for Neoproterozoic strongly peraluminous granitoids from southern China: Hf and O isotopes in zircon

    Xiao-Lei Wang;Xiao-Lei Wang;Jin-Cheng Zhou;Yu-Sheng Wan;Kouki Kitajima

  • SIMS analyses of the oldest known assemblage of microfossils document their taxon-correlated carbon isotope compositions.

    J. William Schopf;Kouki Kitajima;Michael J. Spicuzza;Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev

  • Two-stage partial melting and contrasting cooling history within the Higher Himalayan Crystalline Sequence in the far-eastern Nepal Himalaya

    Takeshi Imayama;Toru Takeshita;Keewook Yi;Deung Lyong Cho

  • Seafloor hydrothermal alteration at an Archaean mid‐ocean ridge

    K. Kitajima;S. Maruyama;S. Utsunomiya;S. Utsunomiya;J. G. Liou

  • Influence of radiation damage on Late Jurassic zircon from southern China: Evidence from in situ measurements of oxygen isotopes, laser Raman, U-Pb ages, and trace elements

    Xiao-Lei Wang;Xiao-Lei Wang;Matthew A. Coble;John W. Valley;Xu-Jie Shu

  • In situ δ 18 O and Mg/Ca analyses of diagenetic and planktic foraminiferal calcite preserved in a deep-sea record of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum

    Reinhard Kozdon;D. C. Kelly;K. Kitajima;A. Strickland

  • Evolution of the composition of seawater through geologic time, and its influence on the evolution of life

    Tsuyoshi Komiya;Takafumi Hirata;Kouki Kitajima;Shinji Yamamoto

  • Questioning the biogenicity of Neoproterozoic superheavy pyrite by SIMS

    Huan Cui;Kouki Kitajima;Michael J. Spicuzza;John H. Fournelle

  • Facies architecture and sequence-stratigraphic features of the Tumbiana Formation in the Pilbara Craton, northwestern Australia: Implications for depositional environments of oxygenic stromatolites during the Late Archean

    Ryusuke Sakurai;Makoto Ito;Yuichiro Ueno;Kouki Kitajima

  • Preservation and detection of microstructural and taxonomic correlations in the carbon isotopic compositions of individual Precambrian microfossils

    Kenneth H. Williford;Takayuki Ushikubo;J. William Schopf;J. William Schopf;Kevin Lepot

  • Metamorphic P–T–time history of the Sanbagawa belt in central Shikoku, Japan and implications for retrograde metamorphism during exhumation

    Kazumasa Aoki;Kouki Kitajima;Hideki Masago;Manabu Nishizawa

  • Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Bias on Isotope Ratios in Dolomite–Ankerite, Part II: δ13C Matrix Effects

    Maciej G. Śliwiński;Kouki Kitajima;Reinhard Kozdon;Reinhard Kozdon;Michael J. Spicuzza

  • Carbon and sulfur isotopic signatures of ancient life and environment at the microbial scale: Neoarchean shales and carbonates

    K. H. Williford;K. H. Williford;T. Ushikubo;K. Lepot;K. Kitajima

  • Oxygen isotopes of anhydrous primary minerals show kinship between asteroid Ryugu and comet 81P/Wild2

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  • Melt origin across a rifted continental margin: A case for subduction-related metasomatic agents in the lithospheric source of alkaline basalt, NW Ross Sea, Antarctica

    Kurt S. Panter;Paterno Castillo;Susan Krans;Chad Deering

  • Destabilization of Long‐Lived Hadean Protocrust and the Onset of Pervasive Hydrous Melting at 3.8 Ga

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  • Contribution of Ryugu-like material to Earth’s volatile inventory by Cu and Zn isotopic analysis

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  • Grain-scale iron isotopic distribution of pyrite from Precambrian shallow marine carbonate revealed by a femtosecond laser ablation multicollector ICP-MS technique: Possible proxy for the redox state of ancient seawater

    Manabu Nishizawa;Manabu Nishizawa;Hiroki Yamamoto;Yuichiro Ueno;Subaru Tsuruoka

  • Fluid generation and evolution during exhumation of deeply subducted UHP continental crust: Petrogenesis of composite granite–quartz veins in the Sulu belt, China

    S.-J. Wang;S.-J. Wang;L. Wang;M. Brown;M. Brown;P. M. Piccoli

  • Diversity in early crustal evolution: 4100 Ma zircons in the Cathaysia Block of southern China

    Guang-Fu Xing;Xiao-Lei Wang;Yusheng Wan;Zhi-Hong Chen

  • Middle Archean ocean ridge hydrothermal metamorphism and alteration recorded in the Cleaverville area, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

    T. Shibuya;K. Kitajima;T. Komiya;M. Terabayashi

  • Microstructure-specific carbon isotopic signatures of organic matter from ∼3.5 Ga cherts of the Pilbara Craton support a biologic origin

    Navot Morag;Kenneth H. Williford;Kenneth H. Williford;Kouki Kitajima;Pascal Philippot

  • Depth variation of carbon and oxygen isotopes of calcites in Archean altered upperoceanic crust: Implications for the CO2 flux from ocean to oceanic crust in the Archean

    Takazo Shibuya;Miyuki Tahata;Kouki Kitajima;Yuichiro Ueno

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Valley
John W. Valley University of Wisconsin–Madison
Shigenori Maruyama
Shigenori Maruyama Tokyo Institute of Technology
Michael J. Spicuzza
Michael J. Spicuzza University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kenneth H. Williford
Kenneth H. Williford Blue Marble Space Institute of Science
Tsuyoshi Komiya
Tsuyoshi Komiya University of Tokyo
Takayuki Ushikubo
Takayuki Ushikubo Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Reinhard Kozdon
Reinhard Kozdon Columbia University
Takafumi Hirata
Takafumi Hirata University of Tokyo
Jaime D. Barnes
Jaime D. Barnes The University of Texas at Austin
Yuichiro Ueno
Yuichiro Ueno Tokyo Institute of Technology

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