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Simon Wallis

Simon Wallis

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Earth Science

D-Index
43
Citations
7442
World Ranking
4927
National Ranking
129

Overview

Simon Wallis is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and specializes in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a principal focus on Geophysics. Their research also spans Atmospheric Science, Mechanics of Materials, Molecular Biology, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping

Frequent venues where Simon Wallis has published include:

  • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • Journal of Petrology
  • Elements
  • Island Arc
  • Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Simon Wallis are as follows:

  • The basement geology of Japan from A to Z, 2020, Island Arc
  • Thermal structure in subducted units from continental Moho depths in a palaeo subduction zone, the Asemigawa region of the Sanbagawa metamorphic belt, SW Japan, 2020, Journal of Metamorphic Geology
  • Dehydration of brucite + antigorite under mantle wedge conditions: insights from the direct comparison of microstructures before and after experiments, 2022, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Crystallographic preferred orientation of talc determined by an improved EBSD procedure for sheet silicates: Implications for anisotropy at the slab-mantle interface due to Si-metasomatism, 2020, American Mineralogist
  • Clockwise rotation of SW Japan and timing of Izanagi-Pacific ridge subduction revealed by arc migration, 2023, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Frequently collaborating coauthors include:

  • Takayoshi Nagaya
  • Ken Yamaoka
  • Yui Kouketsu
  • Akira Miyake
  • Kazuhiro Miyazaki

Best Publications

  • A new approach to develop the Raman carbonaceous material geothermometer for low-grade metamorphism using peak width

    Yui Kouketsu;Tomoyuki Mizukami;Hiroshi Mori;Shunsuke Endo

  • High‐temperature geochronology constraints on the tectonic history and architecture of the ultrahigh‐pressure Dabie‐Sulu Orogen

    Bradley R. Hacker;Simon R. Wallis;Lothar Ratschbacher;Marty Grove

  • Extending the applicability of the Raman carbonaceous-material geothermometer using data from contact metamorphic rocks

    M. Aoya;Y. Kouketsu;S. Endo;H. Shimizu;H. Shimizu

  • Vorticity analysis and recognition of ductile extension in the Sanbagawa belt, SW Japan

    S. Wallis

  • Buoyancy-driven, rapid exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphosed continental crust

    W. G. Ernst;S. Maruyama;S. Wallis

  • Recognition of syn-convergence extension in accretionary wedges with examples from the Calabrian Arc and the Eastern Alps

    S. R. Wallis;J. P. Platt;S. D. Knott

  • Paragenesis of sodic pyroxene-bearing quartz schists: implications for the P-T history of the Sanbagawa belt

    Masaki Enami;Simon R. Wallis;Yasuyuki Banno

  • Kinematics of the Alpine arc and the motion history of Adria

    J. P. Platt;J. H. Behrmann;P. C. Cunningham;J. F. Dewey

  • Vorticity analysis in a metachert from the Sanbagawa Belt, SW Japan

    S.R Wallis

  • Role of partial melting in the evolution of the Sulu (eastern China) ultrahigh-pressure terrane

    Simon Wallis;Motohiro Tsuboi;Kazuhiro Suzuki;Mark Fanning

  • North-south extension in the Tibetan crust triggered by granite emplacement

    Mutsuki Aoya;Simon R. Wallis;Kentaro Terada;Jeffrey Lee

  • Natural examples of olivine lattice preferred orientation patterns with a flow-normal a -axis maximum

    Tomoyuki Mizukami;Tomoyuki Mizukami;Simon R. Wallis;Junji Yamamoto;Junji Yamamoto

  • Cenozoic and Mesozoic metamorphism in the Longmenshan orogen: Implications for geodynamic models of eastern Tibet

    Simon Wallis;Tatsuki Tsujimori;Mutsuki Aoya;Tetsuo Kawakami

  • Plate movements, ductile deformation and geochronology of the Sanbagawa belt, SW Japan: tectonic significance of 89-88 Ma Lu-Hf eclogite ages

    S. R. Wallis;R. Anczkiewicz;R. Anczkiewicz;S. Endo;M. Aoya

  • Seawater-derived noble gases and halogens preserved in exhumed mantle wedge peridotite

    Hirochika Sumino;Hirochika Sumino;Ray Burgess;Tomoyuki Mizukami;Tomoyuki Mizukami;Simon R. Wallis

  • Middle to late Miocene extremely rapid exhumation and thermal reequilibration in the Kung Co rift, southern Tibet

    Jeffrey Lee;Christian Hager;Christian Hager;Simon R. Wallis;Daniel F. Stockli

  • Occurrence and field relationships of ultrahigh-pressure metagranitoid and coesite eclogite in the Su-Lu terrane, eastern China

    S. R. Wallis;A. Ishiwatari;T. Hirajima;K. Ye

  • Exhuming the Sanbagawa metamorphic belt: the importance of tectonic discontinuities

    S. Wallis

  • E–W extension at 19 Ma in the Kung Co area, S. Tibet: Evidence for contemporaneous E–W and N–S extension in the Himalayan orogen

    Mayumi Mitsuishi;Simon R. Wallis;Mutsuki Aoya;Jeffrey Lee

  • A re‐evaluation of eclogite facies metamorphism in SW Japan: proposal for an eclogite nappe

    S. Wallis;M. Aoya

  • THE TIMING OF FOLDING AND STRETCHING IN THE SAMBAGAWA BELT:THE ASEMIGAWA REGION, CENTRAL SHIKOKU

    Simon Richard Wallis

Frequent Co-Authors

Masaki Enami
Masaki Enami Nagoya University
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester
Katsuyoshi Michibayashi
Katsuyoshi Michibayashi Nagoya University
Akira Miyake
Akira Miyake University of Colorado Boulder
Luca Caricchi
Luca Caricchi University of Geneva
Yoshihiro Asahara
Yoshihiro Asahara Nagoya University
Shohei Banno
Shohei Banno Kyoto University
David J. Siveter
David J. Siveter University of Leicester
James Wookey
James Wookey University of Bristol
Tatsuki Tsujimori
Tatsuki Tsujimori Tohoku University

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