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Minoru Kusakabe

Minoru Kusakabe

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Earth Science

D-Index
47
Citations
6679
World Ranking
4091
National Ranking
92

Overview

Minoru Kusakabe is affiliated with Okayama University in Japan, focusing primarily on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their academic contributions span a range of subfields, including Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Materials Chemistry.

Their research encompasses several main topics, notably Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Radioactive contamination and transfer, Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis, and Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis.

Kusakabe has published work in various scientific venues, including:

  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Journal of Analytical Science & Technology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Frequent collaborators include Akira Ueda, Nak Kyu Kim, Takushi Yokoyama, Shigeko Unami, and Takeshi Ohba.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kusakabe feature diverse topics and journals, such as:

  • "Synthesis of mesoporous silica from geothermal water," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Groundwater oxygen anomaly related to the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake in Southwest Japan," 2020, Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B
  • "Carbon Dioxide in Lake Nyos, Cameroon, Estimated Quantitatively From Sound Speed Measurements," 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Two-point normalization for reducing inter-laboratory discrepancies in δ17O, δ18O, and Δ'17O of reference silicates," 2020, Journal of Analytical Science & Technology
  • "A Depression Containing CO2-Enriched Water at the Bottom of Lake Monoun, Cameroon, and Implications for the 1984 Limnic Eruption," 2022, Frontiers in Earth Science

Best Publications

  • Sulfur isotopic effects in the disproportionation reaction of sulfur dioxide in hydrothermal fluids: implications for the δ 34 S variations of dissolved bisulfate and elemental sulfur from active crater lakes

    M. Kusakabe;Y. Komoda;B. Takano;T. Abiko

  • Distribution of highly arsenic and fluoride contaminated groundwater from east Punjab, Pakistan, and the controlling role of anthropogenic pollutants in the natural hydrological cycle

    Abida Farooqi;Harue Masuda;Minoru Kusakabe;Muhammad Naseem

  • Volcanism in the Sumisu Rift, I. Major element, volatile, and stable isotope geochemistry

    Alfred G. Hochstaedter;James B. Gill;Minoru Kusakabe;Sally Newman

  • Geochemistry of the magmatic–hydrothermal system of Kawah Ijen volcano, East Java, Indonesia

    Pierre Delmelle;Pierre Delmelle;Alain Bernard;Minoru Kusakabe;Tobias Fischer

  • Degassing Lakes Nyos and Monoun: Defusing certain disaster

    George W. Kling;William C. Evans;Greg Tanyileke;Minoru Kusakabe

  • Spatial distribution of δD-δ18O values of surface and shallow groundwaters from Japan, south Korea and east China

    Chitoshi Mizota;Minoru Kusakabe

  • The Lake Nyos gas disaster: chemical and isotopic evidence in waters and dissolved gases from three Cameroonian crater lakes, Nyos, Monoun and Wum

    Minoru Kusakabe;Takashi Ohsumi;Shigeo Aramaki

  • Sulfur isotopic view on the sources of sulfur in atmospheric fallout along the coast of the Sea of Japan

    Tsuyoshi Ohizumi;Norio Fukuzaki;Minoru Kusakabe

  • Oxygen and sulfur isotope equilibria in the BaSO4HSO4−H2O system from 110 to 350°C and applications☆

    Minoru Kusakabe;Brian W. Robinson

  • Sulfate reduction using methane in sediments beneath a bathyal cold seep giant clam community off Hatsushima Island, Sagami Bay, Japan

    Toshiyuki Masuzawa;Nobuhiko Handa;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Minoru Kusakabe

  • S, O and Sr isotope systematics of active vent materials from the Mariana backarc basin spreading axis at 18°N

    Minoru Kusakabe;Shingo Mayeda;Eizo Nakamura

  • Strontium, oxygen, and hydrogen isotope geochemistry of hydrothermally altered and weathered rocks in DSDP Hole 504B, Costa Rica Rift

    Hodaka Kawahata;Minoru Kusakabe;Yoshiko Kikuchi

  • Barite silica chimneys from the Sumisu Rift, Izu-Bonin Arc: possible analog to hematitic chert associated with Kuroko deposits

    Tetsuro Urabe;Minoru Kusakabe

  • Recent pH and CO2 profiles at Lakes Nyos and Monoun, Cameroon: implications for the degassing strategy and its numerical simulation

    M Kusakabe;G.Z Tanyileke;S.A McCord;S.G Schladow

  • Explosive Deep Water Basalt in the Sumisu Backarc Rift

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

  • Infrared spectroscopy of hydrous glasses of arc magma compositions

    Shigeru Yamashita;Toshihiro Kitamura;Minoru Kusakabe

  • Global CO2 emission from volcanic lakes

    Nemesio M. Pérez;Pedro A. Hernández;German Padilla;Dácil Nolasco

  • Origin of waters responsible for serpentinization of the Izu-Ogasawara-Mariana forearc seamounts in view of hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios

    Ryutaro Sakai;Minoru Kusakabe;Masami Noto;Teruaki Ishii

  • Symmetrical Helium isotope distribution on the Cameroon Volcanic Line, West Africa

    Festus T Aka;Keisuke Nagao;Minoru Kusakabe;Hirochika Sumino

  • Oxygen isotope fractionation factors between anhydrite and water from 100 to 550°C

    Hitoshi Chiba;Minoru Kusakabe;Shin Ichi Hirano;Sadao Matsuo

Frequent Co-Authors

Keisuke Nagao
Keisuke Nagao University of Tokyo
Hitoshi Sakai
Hitoshi Sakai University of Tokyo
Hiroo Kagami
Hiroo Kagami Niigata University
Yuji Sano
Yuji Sano Kōchi University
Tomoki Nakamura
Tomoki Nakamura Tohoku University
William C. Evans
William C. Evans United States Geological Survey
Hiroshi Shinohara
Hiroshi Shinohara National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Eizo Nakamura
Eizo Nakamura Okayama University
David I. Groves
David I. Groves University of Western Australia
George W. Kling
George W. Kling University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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