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Toshitsugu Yamazaki

Toshitsugu Yamazaki

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Earth Science

D-Index
42
Citations
5902
World Ranking
5316
National Ranking
138

Overview

Toshitsugu Yamazaki is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily falls within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including Atmospheric Science, Molecular Biology, Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work encompasses several main research topics, involving Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Yamazaki has published research in multiple venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Earth Planets and Space
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Collaborations have involved repeated co-authorship with researchers such as Gerold Wefer, Wolfgang Berger, Carl Richter, Donald D. Adams, and Linda Davis Anderson, each with twelve joint works.

Significant recent papers by Toshitsugu Yamazaki include:

  • "Mid-Pleistocene links between Asian dust, Tibetan glaciers, and Pacific iron fertilization," 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Unmixing biogenic and terrigenous magnetic mineral components in red clay of the Pacific Ocean using principal component analyses of first-order reversal curve diagrams and paleoenvironmental implications," 2020, Earth Planets and Space
  • "A Late Cretaceous true polar wander oscillation," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Geomagnetic Paleointensity Around 30 Ma Estimated From Afro-Arabian Large Igneous Province," 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Influence of Magnetofossils on Paleointensity Estimations Inferred From Principal Component Analyses of First-Order Reversal Curve Diagrams for Sediments From the Western Equatorial Pacific," 2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Best Publications

  • A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth

    Heiko Pälike;Mitchell W. Lyle;Hiroshi Nishi;Isabella Raffi

  • Peridotites from the Mariana Trough: first look at the mantle beneath an active back-arc basin

    Yasuhiko Ohara;Robert J. Stern;Teruaki Ishii;Hisayoshi Yurimoto

  • Subducting seamounts and deformation of overriding forearc wedges around Japan

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki;Yukinobu Okamura

  • A geomagnetic paleointensity stack between 0.8 and 3.0 Ma from equatorial Pacific sediment cores

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki;Hirokuni Oda

  • Orbital Influence on Earth's Magnetic Field: 100,000-Year Periodicity in Inclination

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki;Hirokuni Oda

  • Provenance of the north Pacific sediments and process of source material transport as derived from Rb–Sr isotopic systematics

    Yoshihiro Asahara;Tsuyoshi Tanaka;Hikari Kamioka;Akira Nishimura

  • Long-term secular variation of the geomagnetic field during the last 200 kyr recorded in sediment cores from the western equatorial Pacific

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki;Noboru Ioka

  • Organic carbon flux controls the morphology of magnetofossils in marine sediments

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki;Hodaka Kawahata

  • Rock-magnetic changes with reduction diagenesis in Japan Sea sediments and preservation of geomagnetic secular variation in inclination during the last 30,000 years

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki;Abdelaziz L. Abdeldayem;Ken Ikehara

  • Environmental rock‐magnetism of pelagic clay: Implications for Asian eolian input to the North Pacific since the Pliocene

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki;Noboru Ioka

  • Discovery of extremely REY-rich mud in the western North Pacific Ocean

    Koichi Iijima;Kazutaka Yasukawa;Kazutaka Yasukawa;Koichiro Fujinaga;Koichiro Fujinaga;Kentaro Nakamura

  • Evolution of backarc rifting: Mariana Trough, 20°–24°N

    Fernando Martínez;Patricia Fryer;Nancy A. Baker;Toshitsugu Yamazaki

  • Environmental magnetism of Pleistocene sediments in the North Pacific and Ontong‐Java Plateau: Temporal variations of detrital and biogenic components

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki

  • The Japan Trench and its juncture with the Kuril Trench: cruise results of the Kaiko project, Leg 3

    Jean-Paul Cadet;Kazuo Kobayashi;Jean Aubouin;Jacques Boulègue

  • Origin of magnetic mineral concentration variation in the Southern Ocean

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki;Minoru Ikehara

  • 10Be evidence for delayed acquisition of remanent magnetization in marine sediments: Implication for a new age for the Matuyama–Brunhes boundary

    Yusuke Suganuma;Yusuke Yokoyama;Toshitsugu Yamazaki;Kenji Kawamura

  • Magnetostatic interactions in deep‐sea sediments inferred from first‐order reversal curve diagrams: Implications for relative paleointensity normalization

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki

  • Limited latitudinal mantle plume motion for the Louisville hotspot

    Anthony A. P. Koppers;Toshitsugu Yamazaki;Joerg Geldmacher;Jeffrey S. Gee

  • The Effect of Magmatic Activity on Hydrothermal Venting Along the Superfast-Spreading East Pacific Rise

    T. Urabe;E. T. Baker;J. Ishibashi;R. A. Feely

  • Normal faulting of the Daiichi-Kashima Seamount in the Japan Trench revealed by the Kaiko I cruise, Leg 3

    Kazuo Kobayashi;Jean-Paul Cadet;Jean Aubouin;Jacques Boulègue

  • Paleoposition of the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the eastern Pacific inferred from glacial-interglacial changes in terrigenous and biogenic magnetic mineral fractions

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary D. Acton
Gary D. Acton Texas A&M University
James E T Channell
James E T Channell University of Florida
Anthony A. P. Koppers
Anthony A. P. Koppers Oregon State University
Yusuke Yokoyama
Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo
Osamu Ishizuka
Osamu Ishizuka National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Yasuhiro Kato
Yasuhiro Kato University of Tokyo
Minoru Ikehara
Minoru Ikehara Kōchi University
Ken Ikehara
Ken Ikehara National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Bridget S. Wade
Bridget S. Wade University College London
Appy Sluijs
Appy Sluijs Utrecht University

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