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Masahiro Chigira

Masahiro Chigira

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Earth Science

D-Index
34
Citations
4528
World Ranking
7952
National Ranking
236

Overview

Masahiro Chigira is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering. Their research spans a variety of subfields including Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

The primary focus of Chigira's work is on landslides and related hazards, with extensive studies also conducted in geology and paleoclimatology, cryospheric observations, earthquake and tectonic dynamics, soil and unsaturated flow, groundwater flow and contamination, and 3D surveying related to cultural heritage.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Island Arc
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Geomorphology
  • Engineering Geology
  • CATENA

Notable recent papers authored by Chigira include:

  • "A series of rockslides and gravitational slope deformations aligned along the Kali Gandaki across the Nepal Himalaya," 2022, Geomorphology
  • "The Kui boulder fields: Formation processes controlled by columnar joints of granodiorite," 2021, CATENA
  • "Rock pillars shaped by columnar joints in granite at Mt. Mizugaki, Central Japan," 2021, Island Arc
  • "Geological history controlling the debris avalanches of pyroclastic fall deposits induced by the 2009 Padang earthquake, Indonesia: The sequential influences of pumice fall, weathering, and slope undercut," 2021, Engineering Geology (co-authored by Maho Nakano Hosobuchi)
  • "Pore-water chemistry and its influence on rock mechanical properties and hydrogeophysical processes in a mudstone slope in the southwestern Taiwan badlands," 2020, CATENA (co-authored by Kohei Higuchi)

Chigira has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Kohei Higuchi
  • Michel Jaboyedoff
  • Ching-Ying Tsou
  • Hironori Kato
  • Jian Wu

The topics addressed across these collaborations and publications cover a range of geological phenomena and environmental processes relevant to understanding slope stability, rock mechanics, and the interaction of geological and hydrological factors in various landscapes.

Best Publications

  • Landslides induced by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan, China

    Masahiro Chigira;Xiyong Wu;Takashi Inokuchi;Gonghui Wang

  • Long-term gravitational deformation of rocks by mass rock creep

    Masahiro Chigira

  • Catastrophic landslide induced by Typhoon Morakot, Shiaolin, Taiwan

    Ching-Ying Tsou;Zheng-Yi Feng;Masahiro Chigira

  • Geological and geomorphological characteristics of landslides triggered by the 2004 Mid Niigta prefecture earthquake in Japan

    Masahiro Chigira;Hiroshi Yagi

  • Geological causes and geomorphological precursors of the Tsaoling landslide triggered by the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake, Taiwan

    Masahiro Chigira;Wen-Neng Wang;Takahiko Furuya;Toshitaka Kamai

  • Topographic precursors and geological structures of deep-seated catastrophic landslides caused by Typhoon Talas

    Masahiro Chigira;Ching-Ying Tsou;Yuki Matsushi;Narumi Hiraishi

  • Geological and geomorphological precursors of the Chiu-fen-erh-shan landslide triggered by the Chi-chi earthquake in central Taiwan

    Wen-Neng Wang;Masahiro Chigira;Takahiko Furuya

  • Deep-seated rockslide-avalanches preceded by mass rock creep of sedimentary rocks in the Akaishi Mountains, central Japan

    Masahiro Chigira;Kenzo Kiho

  • Mechanism and effect of chemical weathering of sedimentary rocks

    M. Chigira;T. Oyama

  • September 2005 rain-induced catastrophic rockslides on slopes affected by deep-seated gravitational deformations, Kyushu, southern Japan

    Masahiro Chigira

  • Seismic recordings of landslides caused by Typhoon Talas (2011), Japan

    Masumi Yamada;Yuki Matsushi;Masahiro Chigira;Jim Mori

  • Micro-sheeting of granite and its relationship with landsliding specifically after the heavy rainstorm in June 1999, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

    M Chigira

  • Landslides: Landslides induced by the Wenchuan earthquake

    Masahiro Chigira;Gonghui Wang;Xiyong Wu

  • A mechanism of chemical weathering of mudstone in a mountainous area

    Masahiro Chigira

  • Using an airborne laser scanner for the identification of shallow landslides and susceptibility assessment in an area of ignimbrite overlain by permeable pyroclastics

    Masahiro Chigira;Fengjun Duan;Hiroshi Yagi;Takahiko Furuya

  • Landslides and Debris Flows Strike Kyushu, Japan

    Roy C. Sidle;Masahiro Chigira

  • Weathering mechanisms and their effects on the landsliding of ignimbrite subject to vapor-phase crystallization in the Shirakawa pyroclastic flow, northern Japan

    M Chigira;M Nakamoto;E Nakata

  • Weathering rate of mudstone and tuff on old unlined tunnel walls

    Takahiro Oyama;Masahiro Chigira

  • Weathering profile of non-welded ignimbrite and the water infiltration behavior within it in relation to the generation of shallow landslides

    Masahiro Chigira;Osamu Yokoyama

  • Structural features and the history of mud volcanoes in southern Hokkaido, northern Japan

    Masahiro Chigira;Kazuhiro Tanaka

  • Application of the Distinct Element Method for analysis of toppling observed on a fissured rock slope

    T. Ishida;M. Chigira;S. Hibino

Frequent Co-Authors

Gonghui Wang
Gonghui Wang Kyoto University
Michel Jaboyedoff
Michel Jaboyedoff University of Lausanne
Jim Mori
Jim Mori Kyoto University
Marc-Henri Derron
Marc-Henri Derron University of Lausanne
Roy C. Sidle
Roy C. Sidle University of Central Asia
Kazuhiro Tanaka
Kazuhiro Tanaka Yamaguchi University
Kaoru Takara
Kaoru Takara Kyoto University
David N. Petley
David N. Petley University of Sheffield
Khalid M. Mosalam
Khalid M. Mosalam University of California, Berkeley

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