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Tsuyoshi Komiya

Tsuyoshi Komiya

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Earth Science

D-Index
47
Citations
7758
World Ranking
4046
National Ranking
90

Overview

Tsuyoshi Komiya is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily spans subfields including Geophysics, Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Oceanography, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and earthquake and tectonic studies.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Komiya include Jian Han, Xing Wang, Xiaoguang Yang, Yusuke Sawaki, and Kentaro Uesugi.

Common venues for publishing their research are Goldschmidt Abstracts, Abstracts with Programs from the Geological Society of America, Precambrian Research, Island Arc, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Komiya include:

  • Zinc isotopic evidence for recycled carbonate in the deep mantle, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Traces of intra-oceanic arcs recorded in sandstones of eastern Kazakhstan: implications from U-Pb detrital zircon ages, geochemistry, and Nd-Hf isotopes, 2021, International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Muscle systems and motility of early animals highlighted by cnidarians from the basal Cambrian, 2022, eLife
  • An intermediate type of medusa from the early Cambrian Kuanchuanpu Formation, South China, 2020, Palaeontology
  • Compositional heterogeneity of Archean mantle estimated from Sr and Nd isotopic systematics of basaltic rocks from North Pole, Australia, and the Isua supracrustal belt, Greenland, 2020, Precambrian Research

Best Publications

  • Plate Tectonics at 3.8-3.7 Ga: Field Evidence from the Isua Accretionary Complex, Southern West Greenland.

    Tsuyoshi Komiya;Shigenori Maruyama;Toshiaki Masuda;Toshiaki Masuda;Susumu Nohda;Susumu Nohda

  • Major episodic increases of continental crustal growth determined from zircon ages of river sands; implications for mantle overturns in the Early Precambrian

    Shuji Rino;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Brian F. Windley;Ikuo Katayama

  • Uranium and molybdenum isotope evidence for an episode of widespread ocean oxygenation during the late Ediacaran Period

    Brian Kendall;Brian Kendall;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Timothy W. Lyons;Steve M. Bates

  • The Ediacaran radiogenic Sr isotope excursion in the Doushantuo Formation in the Three Gorges area, South China

    Yusuke Sawaki;Takeshi Ohno;Miyuki Tahata;Tsuyoshi Komiya

  • Coesite and clinopyroxene exsolution lamellae in chromites: In-situ ultrahigh-pressure evidence from podiform chromitites in the Luobusa ophiolite, southern Tibet

    Shinji Yamamoto;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Kei Hirose;Shigenori Maruyama

  • A New Concept of Continental Construction in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Inna Safonova;Reimar Seltmann;Alfred Kroner;Dmitry Gladkochub

  • 4.2 Ga zircon xenocryst in an Acasta gneiss from northwestern Canada : Evidence for early continental crust

    Tsuyoshi Iizuka;Kenji Horie;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Shigenori Maruyama

  • Early trace of life from 3.95 Ga sedimentary rocks in Labrador, Canada

    Takayuki Tashiro;Akizumi Ishida;Masako Hori;Masako Hori;Motoko Igisu

  • U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotope systematics of zircons from the Mississippi River sand: Implications for reworking and growth of continental crust

    Tsuyoshi Iizuka;Takafumi Hirata;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Shuji Rino

  • Detrital zircon evidence for Hf isotopic evolution of granitoid crust and continental growth

    Tsuyoshi Iizuka;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Shuji Rino;Shigenori Maruyama

  • Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy of a Precambrian/Cambrian boundary section in the Three Gorge area, South China: Prominent global-scale isotope excursions just before the Cambrian Explosion

    Tomoko Ishikawa;Yuichiro Ueno;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Yusuke Sawaki

  • A new concept of continental construction in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (compared to actualistic examples from the Western Pacific)

    I Safonova;E Seltmann;A Kröner;D Gladkochub

  • Geology and zircon geochronology of the Acasta Gneiss Complex, northwestern Canada: New constraints on its tectonothermal history

    Tsuyoshi Iizuka;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Yuichiro Ueno;Ikuo Katayama

  • Reworking of Hadean crust in the Acasta gneisses, northwestern Canada: Evidence from in-situ Lu–Hf isotope analysis of zircon

    Tsuyoshi Iizuka;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Simon P. Johnson;Yoshiaki Kon

  • Carbon and oxygen isotope chemostratigraphies of the Yangtze platform, South China: Decoding temperature and environmental changes through the Ediacaran

    Miyuki Tahata;Yuichiro Ueno;Tomoko Ishikawa;Yusuke Sawaki

  • Highly alkaline, high-temperature hydrothermal fluids in the early Archean ocean

    Takazo Shibuya;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Kentaro Nakamura;Ken Takai

  • New chronological constraints for Cryogenian to Cambrian rocks in the Three Gorges, Weng'an and Chengjiang areas, South China

    Yoshihiro Okada;Yusuke Sawaki;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Takafumi Hirata

  • Ion microprobe analysis of graphite from ca. 3.8 Ga metasediments, Isua supracrustal belt, West Greenland: Relationship between metamorphism and carbon isotopic composition

    Yuichiro Ueno;Hisayoshi Yurimoto;Hideyoshi Yoshioka;Tsuyoshi Komiya

  • Recognizing OIB and MORB in accretionary complexes: A new approach based on ocean plate stratigraphy, petrology and geochemistry

    I. Safonova;I. Safonova;S. Maruyama;S. Kojima;T. Komiya

  • Geology of the Eoarchean, > 3.95 Ga, Nulliak supracrustal rocks in the Saglek Block, northern Labrador, Canada: The oldest geological evidence for plate tectonics

    Tsuyoshi Komiya;Shinji Yamamoto;Shogo Aoki;Yusuke Sawaki

  • Evolution of the composition of seawater through geologic time, and its influence on the evolution of life

    Tsuyoshi Komiya;Takafumi Hirata;Kouki Kitajima;Shinji Yamamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigenori Maruyama
Shigenori Maruyama Tokyo Institute of Technology
Takafumi Hirata
Takafumi Hirata University of Tokyo
Jian Han
Jian Han Northwest University
Yuichiro Ueno
Yuichiro Ueno Tokyo Institute of Technology
Naohiro Yoshida
Naohiro Yoshida Tokyo Institute of Technology
Degan Shu
Degan Shu Northwest University
Tsuyoshi Iizuka
Tsuyoshi Iizuka University of Tokyo
Ikuo Katayama
Ikuo Katayama Hiroshima University
Kouki Kitajima
Kouki Kitajima University of Wisconsin–Madison
Yuji Sano
Yuji Sano Kōchi University

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