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Tomoaki Morishita

Tomoaki Morishita

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Earth Science

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36
Citations
4218
World Ranking
7350
National Ranking
210

Overview

Tomoaki Morishita is affiliated with Kanazawa University in Japan and has an extensive research record in Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing particularly on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geology, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their scholarly output encompasses a range of topics that include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geological and Geophysical Studies, and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Among their recent published papers are the following:

  • Ruthenium isotope vestige of Earth's pre-late-veneer mantle preserved in Archaean rocks, 2020, Nature
  • Assessing changes in soil carbon stocks after land use conversion from forest land to agricultural land in Japan, 2020, Geoderma
  • Petrogenesis of the ~740 Korab Kansi mafic-ultramafic intrusion, South Eastern Desert of Egypt: Evidence of Ti-rich ferropicritic magmatism, 2020, Gondwana Research
  • Petrogenesis of arc-related serpentinized peridotites (Egypt): Insights into Neoproterozoic mantle evolution beneath the Arabian-Nubian Shield, 2022, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • Styles of Fe-Ti-V ore deposits in the Neoproterozoic layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions, south Eastern Desert of Egypt: Evidence for fractional crystallization of V-rich melts, 2022, Journal of African Earth Sciences

Frequent co-authorship has occurred with the following researchers:

  • Akihiro Tamura
  • Kristoffer Szilas
  • Ikuya Nishio
  • Norikatsu Akizawa
  • Shoji Arai

Common publication venues for their work include Lithos, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), International Geology Review, Goldschmidt2021 abstracts, and Ore Geology Reviews.

Best Publications

  • Widespread arc-related melting in the mantle section of the northern Oman ophiolite as inferred from detrital chromian spinels

    S. Arai;K. Kadoshima;T. Morishita

  • Determination of Multiple Trace Element Compositions in Thin (> 30 ?m) Layers of NIST SRM 614 and 616 Using Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)

    Tomoaki Morishita;Yoshito Ishida;Shoji Arai;Miki Shirasaka

  • Geological background of the Kairei and Edmond hydrothermal fields along the Central Indian Ridge: Implications of their vent fluids’ distinct chemistry

    Hidenori Kumagai;K. Nakamura;K. Nakamura;T. Toki;T. Morishita

  • Serpentinized troctolites exposed near the Kairei Hydrothermal Field, Central Indian Ridge: Insights into the origin of the Kairei hydrothermal fluid supporting a unique microbial ecosystem

    Kentaro Nakamura;Kentaro Nakamura;Tomoaki Morishita;Wolfgang Bach;Frieder Klein

  • Insight into the uppermost mantle section of a maturing arc: The Eastern Mirdita ophiolite, Albania

    Tomoaki Morishita;Tomoaki Morishita;Yildirim Dilek;Minella Shallo;Akihiro Tamura

  • Simultaneous determination of multiple trace element compositions in thin (<30.MU.m) layers of BCR-2G by 193 nm ArF excimer laser ablation-ICP-MS: implications for matrix effect and elemental fractionation on quantitative analysis

    Tomoaki Morishita;Yoshito Ishida;Shoji Arai

  • Ruthenium isotope vestige of Earth's pre-late-veneer mantle preserved in Archaean rocks.

    Mario Fischer-Gödde;Bo Magnus Elfers;Carsten Münker;Kristoffer Szilas

  • Diversity of melt conduits in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc mantle: Implications for the earliest stage of arc magmatism

    Tomoaki Morishita;Tomoaki Morishita;Kenichiro Tani;Hiroshi Shukuno;Yumiko Harigane

  • Igneous, Alteration and Exhumation Processes Recorded in Abyssal Peridotites and Related Fault Rocks from an Oceanic Core Complex along the Central Indian Ridge

    Tomoaki Morishita;Kaori Hara;Kentaro Nakamura;Kentaro Nakamura;Takashi Sawaguchi

  • Simultaneous in-situ multi-element analysis of minerals on thin section using LA-ICP-MS

    Yoshito Ishida;Tomoaki Morishita;Shoji Arai;Miki Shirasaka

  • High-pressure aluminous mafic rocks from the Ronda peridotite massif, southern Spain: significance of sapphirine- and corundum-bearing mineral assemblages

    Tomoaki Morishita;Tomoaki Morishita;Shoji Arai;Fernando Gervilla

  • Evolution of spinel–pyroxene symplectite in spinel–lherzolites from the Horoman Complex, Japan

    Tomoaki Morishita;Shoji Arai

  • Trace element compositions of jadeite (+omphacite) in jadeitites from the Itoigawa-Ohmi district, Japan: Implications for fluid processes in subduction zones

    Tomoaki Morishita;Shoji Arai;Yoshito Ishida

  • In situ carbon mineralization in ultramafic rocks: Natural processes and possible engineered methods

    P.B. Kelemen;R. Aines;E. Bennett;S.M. Benson

  • Petrogenesis of Corundum-Bearing Mafic Rock in the Horoman Peridotite Complex, Japan

    Tomoaki Morishita;Shoji Arai

  • Petrology of an apatite-rich layer in the Finero phlogopite-peridotite, Italian Western Alps ; implications for evolution of a metasomatising agent

    Tomoaki Morishita;Tomoaki Morishita;Shoji Arai;Akihiro Tamura

  • Petrology of local concentration of chromian spinel in dunite from the slow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge

    Tomoaki Morishita;Jinichiro Maeda;Sumio Miyashita;Hidenori Kumagai

  • Dynamic Accretion Beneath a Slow-Spreading Ridge Segment: IODP Hole 1473A and the Atlantis Bank Oceanic Core Complex

    H. J. B. Dick;C. J. MacLeod;P. Blum;N. Abe

  • On the Recycling of Amphibole-rich Ultramafic Intrusive Rocks in the Arc Crust: Evidence from Shikanoshima Island (Kyushu, Japan)

    M. Tiepolo;A. Langone;T. Morishita;M. Yuhara

  • Evolution of Low-Al Orthopyroxene in the Horoman Peridotite, Japan: an Unusual Indicator of Metasomatizing Fluids

    Tomoaki Morishita;Shoji Arai;David H. Green

  • Geochemistry of apatite-rich layers in the Finero phlogopite-peridotite massif (Italian Western Alps) and ion microprobe dating of apatite

    Tomoaki Morishita;Kéiko H. Hattori;Kentaro Terada;Takuya Matsumoto

  • Significance of chromian spinels from the mantle sequence of the Andaman Ophiolite, India: Paleogeodynamic implications

    Biswajit Ghosh;Tomoaki Morishita;Koyel Bhatta

Frequent Co-Authors

Shoji Arai
Shoji Arai Kanazawa University
Akihiro Tamura
Akihiro Tamura Kanazawa University
Katsuyoshi Michibayashi
Katsuyoshi Michibayashi Nagoya University
Kentaro Nakamura
Kentaro Nakamura Tokyo Institute of Technology
Kenichiro Tani
Kenichiro Tani Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Peter B. Kelemen
Peter B. Kelemen Columbia University
Christopher J. MacLeod
Christopher J. MacLeod Cardiff University
Maurizio Mazzucchelli
Maurizio Mazzucchelli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Massimo Tiepolo
Massimo Tiepolo University of Milan
Damon A. H. Teagle
Damon A. H. Teagle University of Southampton

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