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Kunio Kaiho

Kunio Kaiho

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Earth Science

D-Index
46
Citations
6840
World Ranking
4287
National Ranking
98

Overview

Kunio Kaiho is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with additional publications in Engineering. Their work spans key subfields including Paleontology, Ocean Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Mechanics of Materials, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their research covers a variety of topics related to paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geology and paleoclimatology research, drilling and well engineering, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, geochemistry and elemental analysis, as well as geological and geochemical analysis.

Recent notable publications by Kunio Kaiho include:

  • Pulsed volcanic combustion events coincident with the end-Permian terrestrial disturbance and the following global crisis, 2020, Geology
  • Coronene, mercury, and biomarker data support a link between extinction magnitude and volcanic intensity in the Late Devonian, 2021, Global and Planetary Change
  • Volcanic temperature changes modulated volatile release and climate fluctuations at the end-Triassic mass extinction, 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Terrestrial ecosystem collapse and soil erosion before the end-Permian marine extinction: Organic geochemical evidence from marine and non-marine records, 2020, Global and Planetary Change
  • Relationship between extinction magnitude and climate change during major marine and terrestrial animal crises, 2022, Biogeosciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kunio Kaiho include:

  • Ryosuke Saito
  • Li Tian
  • Kantaro Fujioka
  • Brian Taylor
  • Thomas R. Janecek

Kaiho has published numerous articles in prominent journals, with top publication venues including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Scientific Reports
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Benthic foraminiferal dissolved-oxygen index and dissolved-oxygen levels in the modern ocean

    Kunio Kaiho

  • Effect of organic carbon flux and dissolved oxygen on the benthic foraminiferal oxygen index (BFOI)

    Kunio Kaiho

  • Global changes of Paleogene aerobic/anaerobic benthic foraminifera and deep-sea circulation

    Kunio Kaiho

  • Latest Paleocene benthic foraminiferal extinction and environmental changes at Tawanui, New Zealand

    Kunio Kaiho;Tetsuya Arinobu;Ryoshi Ishiwatari;Hugh E. G. Morgans

  • Complete biotic and sedimentary records of the Permian–Triassic transition from Meishan section, South China: Ecologically assessing mass extinction and its aftermath

    Zhong Qiang Chen;Hao Yang;Mao Luo;Michael J. Benton

  • A volcanic trigger for the Late Ordovician mass extinction? Mercury data from south China and Laurentia

    David S. Jones;Anna M. Martini;David A. Fike;Kunio Kaiho

  • Timing and magnitude of early Aptian extreme warming: Unraveling primary δ18O variation in indurated pelagic carbonates at Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 463, central Pacific Ocean

    Atsushi Ando;Atsushi Ando;Kunio Kaiho;Hodaka Kawahata;Hodaka Kawahata;Takeshi Kakegawa

  • End-Cenomanian benthic foraminiferal extinctions and oceanic dysoxic events in the northwestern Pacific Ocean

    Kunio Kaiho;Takashi Hasegawa

  • Planktonic and benthic foraminiferal extinction events during the last 100 m.y

    Kunio Kaiho

  • Early Triassic recovery of the brachiopod faunas from the end-Permian mass extinction: A global review

    Zhong Qiang Chen;Kunio Kaiho;Annette D. George

  • Spike of pyrosynthetic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons associated with an abrupt decrease in δ13C of a terrestrial biomarker at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Caravaca, Spain

    Tetsuya Arinobu;Ryoshi Ishiwatari;Kunio Kaiho;Marcos A. Lamolda

  • Survival strategies of brachiopod faunas from the end-Permian mass extinction

    Zhong Qiang Chen;Kunio Kaiho;Annette D. George

  • Global climate change driven by soot at the K-Pg boundary as the cause of the mass extinction

    Kunio Kaiho;Naga Oshima;Kouji Adachi;Yukimasa Adachi

  • Close-up of the end-Permian mass extinction horizon recorded in the Meishan section, South China: Sedimentary, elemental, and biotic characterization and a negative shift of sulfate sulfur isotope ratio

    Kunio Kaiho;Zhong Qiang Chen;Hodaka Kawahata;Yoshimichi Kajiwara

  • Anomalous shifts in tropical Pacific planktonic and benthic foraminiferal test size during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum

    Kunio Kaiho;Kotaro Takeda;Maria Rose Petrizzo;James C. Zachos

  • Onset of biotic and environmental recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction within 1–2 million years: A case study of the Lower Triassic of the Meishan section, South China

    Z.Q. Chen;Jinnan Tong;Kunio Kaiho;Hodaka Kawahata

  • End-Cretaceous devastation of terrestrial flora in the boreal Far East

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  • Oceanic primary productivity and dissolved oxygen levels at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: Their decrease, subsequent warming, and recovery

    Kunio Kaiho;Yoshimichi Kajiwara;Kazue Tazaki;Masato Ueshima

  • Explosive Deep Water Basalt in the Sumisu Backarc Rift

    J. Gill;P. Torssander;H. Lapierre;R. Taylor

  • Faunal turnovers in central Pacific benthic foraminifera during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum

    Kotaro Takeda;Kunio Kaiho

  • A low extinction rate of intermediate-water benthic foraminifera at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary

    Kunio Kaiho

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhong-Qiang Chen
Zhong-Qiang Chen China University of Geosciences
Jinnan Tong
Jinnan Tong China University of Geosciences
Hodaka Kawahata
Hodaka Kawahata University of Tokyo
Ryoshi Ishiwatari
Ryoshi Ishiwatari Tokyo Metropolitan University
Tsuyoshi Komiya
Tsuyoshi Komiya University of Tokyo
Laishi Zhao
Laishi Zhao China University of Geosciences
Takeyoshi Yoshida
Takeyoshi Yoshida Tohoku University
Kazuyoshi Takayama
Kazuyoshi Takayama Tohoku University
Guang Rong Shi
Guang Rong Shi University of Wollongong
Kouji Adachi
Kouji Adachi Japan Meteorological Agency

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