Yasuhiko Ohara

Best Publications

• Fore-arc basalts and subduction initiation in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana system

  Mark K. Reagan;Osamu Ishizuka;Robert J. Stern;Katherine A. Kelley

  840
  Citations

• To understand subduction initiation, study forearc crust: To understand forearc crust, study ophiolites

  R.J. Stern;M. Reagan;O. Ishizuka;Y. Ohara

  489
  Citations

• Oceanic core complexes and crustal accretion at slow-spreading ridges

  B. Ildefonse;D.K. Blackman;B.E. John;Y. Ohara

  437
  Citations

• Early stages in the evolution of Izu–Bonin arc volcanism: new age, chemical, and isotopic constraints

  Osamu Ishizuka;Jun Ichi Kimura;Yi B. Li;Robert J. Stern

  333
  Citations

• The Philippine Sea: New survey results reveal the structure and the history of the marginal basins

  Kyoko Okino;Yasuhiko Ohara;Shigeru Kasuga;Yukihiro Kato

  309
  Citations

• 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

  220
  Citations

• A New Scenario of the Parece Vela Basin Genesis

  K. Okino;S. Kasuga;Y. Ohara

  216
  Citations

• Peridotites from the southern Mariana forearc: Heterogeneous fluid supply in mantle wedge

  Yasuhiko Ohara;Teruaki Ishii

  184
  Citations

• Making and breaking an island arc: A new perspective from the Oligocene Kyushu-Palau arc, Philippine Sea

  Osamu Ishizuka;Osamu Ishizuka;Rex N. Taylor;Makoto Yuasa;Yasuhiko Ohara

  184
  Citations

• The geology of the southern Mariana fore-arc crust: Implications for the scale of Eocene volcanism in the western Pacific

  Mark K. Reagan;William C. McClelland;Guillaume Girard;Kathleen R. Goff

  159
  Citations

• A serpentinite-hosted ecosystem in the Southern Mariana Forearc

  Yasuhiko Ohara;Mark K. Reagan;Katsunori Fujikura;Hiromi Watanabe

  124
  Citations

• Giant Megamullion in the Parece Vela Backarc Basin

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  115
  Citations

• Formation of tonalite from basaltic magma at the Komahashi-Daini Seamount, northern Kyushu-Palau Ridge in the Philippine Sea, and growth of Izu-Ogasawara (Bonin)-Mariana arc crust

  Satoru Haraguchi;Teruaki Ishii;Jun-Ichi Kimura;Yasuhiko Ohara

  112
  Citations

• Drilling constraints on lithospheric accretion and evolution at Atlantis Massif, Mid‐Atlantic Ridge 30°N

  D. K. Blackman;B. Ildefonse;B. E. John;Y. Ohara

  110
  Citations

• Peridotites and gabbros from the Parece Vela backarc basin: Unique tectonic window in an extinct backarc spreading ridge

  Yasuhiko Ohara;Kantaro Fujioka;Teruaki Ishii;Hisayoshi Yurimoto

  106
  Citations

• Upwelling, rifting, and age-progressive magmatism from the Oki-Daito mantle plume

  Osamu Ishizuka;Osamu Ishizuka;Rex N. Taylor;Yasuhiko Ohara;Makoto Yuasa

  106
  Citations

• Nature and distribution of slab‐derived fluids and mantle sources beneath the Southeast Mariana forearc rift

  Julia M. Ribeiro;Robert J. Stern;Katherine A. Kelley;Fernando Martinez

  93
  Citations

• Enigmatic extinct spreading center in the West Philippine backarc basin unveiled

  Kantaro Fujioka;Kyoko Okino;Toshiya Kanamatsu;Yasuhiko Ohara

  79
  Citations

• Back-Arc Basins

  Fernando Martinez;Kyoko Okino;Yasuhiko Ohara;Anna-Louise Reysenbach

  67
  Citations

• Natural olivine crystal-fabrics in the western Pacific convergence region: A new method to identify fabric type

  Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;David Mainprice;Ayano Fujii;Shigeki Uehara

  64
  Citations