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Yasuhiro Kato

Yasuhiro Kato

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Earth Science

D-Index
41
Citations
6114
World Ranking
5555
National Ranking
147

Overview

Yasuhiro Kato is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan, with a primary focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research portfolio includes 162 publications concentrated on this broad field. Within Earth and Planetary Sciences, they have contributed substantially to notable subfields such as Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research spans multiple main topics, reflecting a diverse and specialized focus. These topics include:

  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Kato has contributed research articles to several frequent publication venues, with a significant number of papers appearing in:

  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Scientific Reports
  • Minerals
  • Precambrian Research
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on geochemical and geological topics related to deep-sea sediments and rare-earth elements, as well as isotopic evidence and resource potential in marine environments. These include:

  • Chemostratigraphy of deep-sea sediments in the western North Pacific Ocean: Implications for genesis of mud highly enriched in rare-earth elements and yttrium (2020, Ore Geology Reviews)
  • Fish proliferation and rare-earth deposition by topographically induced upwelling at the late Eocene cooling event (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Geochemical features of Fe-Mn micronodules in deep-sea sediments of the western North Pacific Ocean: Potential for co-product metal extraction from REY-rich mud (2020, Ore Geology Reviews)
  • Zinc isotopic evidence for recycled carbonate in the deep mantle (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Geological features and resource potential of deep-sea mud highly enriched in rare-earth elements in the Central Pacific Basin and the Penrhyn Basin (2021, Ore Geology Reviews)

Kato has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Kazutaka Yasukawa, Kentaro Nakamura, Koichiro Fujinaga, Junichiro Ohta, and Shiki Machida. These collaborations have contributed to their extensive output and multi-disciplinary research approaches.

Best Publications

  • Deep-sea mud in the Pacific Ocean as a potential resource for rare-earth elements

    Yasuhiro Kato;Koichiro Fujinaga;Kentaro Nakamura;Yutaro Takaya

  • Geochemistry of Late Permian to Early Triassic pelagic cherts from southwest Japan: implications for an oceanic redox change

    Yasuhiro Kato;Kyoko Nakao;Yukio Isozaki

  • The tremendous potential of deep-sea mud as a source of rare-earth elements

    Yutaro Takaya;Kazutaka Yasukawa;Kazutaka Yasukawa;Takehiro Kawasaki;Koichiro Fujinaga;Koichiro Fujinaga

  • Rare earth element variations in mid-Archean banded iron formations: Implications for the chemistry of ocean and continent and plate tectonics

    Yasuhiro Kato;Yasuhiro Kato;Izumi Ohta;Tomoki Tsunematsu;Yoshio Watanabe

  • Geochemistry of a long in-situ section of intrusive slow-spread oceanic lithosphere: Results from IODP Site U1309 (Atlantis Massif, 30°N Mid-Atlantic-Ridge)

    Marguerite Godard;S. Awaji;H. Hansen;E. Hellebrand

  • Field occurrence, geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Archean Mid-Oceanic Ridge Basalts (AMORBs) of the Cleaverville area, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

    H. Ohta;S. Maruyama;E. Takahashi;Y. Watanabe

  • Geochemistry and mineralogy of REY-rich mud in the eastern Indian Ocean

    Kazutaka Yasukawa;Hanjie Liu;Koichiro Fujinaga;Shiki Machida;Shiki Machida

  • Carbonatization of oceanic crust by the seafloor hydrothermal activity and its significance as a CO2 sink in the Early Archean

    Kentaro Nakamura;Yasuhiro Kato

  • Origin and global tectonic significance of Early Archean cherts from the Marble Bar greenstone belt, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

    Y Kato

  • Major and trace element geochemistry and Os isotopic composition of metalliferous umbers from the Late Cretaceous Japanese accretionary complex

    Yasuhiro Kato;Koichiro Fujinaga;Katsuhiko Suzuki

  • Rare earth elements in Precambrian banded iron formations: Secular changes of Ce and Eu anomalies and evolution of atmospheric oxygen

    Yasuhiro Kato;Kosei E. Yamaguchi;Hiroshi Ohmoto

  • High-Mg adakite and low-Ca boninite from a bonin fore-arc seamount: Implications for the reaction between slab melts and depleted mantle

    Yi Bing Li;Jun Ichi Kimura;Shiki Machida;Teruaki Ishii

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

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

  • Chemical and biological evolution of early Earth: Constraints from banded iron formations

    Hiroshi Ohmoto;Yumiko Watanabe;Kosei E. Yamaguchi;Hiroshi Naraoka

  • SIMS zircon U–Pb and mica K–Ar geochronology, and Sr–Nd isotope geochemistry of Neoproterozoic granitoids and their bearing on the evolution of the north Eastern Desert, Egypt

    H. A. Eliwa;H. A. Eliwa;C. Breitkreuz;M. Murata;I. M. Khalaf

  • Synchrotron X-ray spectroscopic perspective on the formation mechanism of REY-rich muds in the Pacific Ocean

    Teruhiko Kashiwabara;Ryuichi Toda;Kentaro Nakamura;Kazutaka Yasukawa;Kazutaka Yasukawa

  • Tracking the spatiotemporal variations of statistically independent components involving enrichment of rare-earth elements in deep-sea sediments.

    Kazutaka Yasukawa;Kentaro Nakamura;Koichiro Fujinaga;Hikaru Iwamori

  • Sclerite formation in the hydrothermal-vent “scaly-foot” gastropod—possible control of iron sulfide biomineralization by the animal

    Yohey Suzuki;Robert Evans Kopp;Toshihiro Kogure;Akinobu Suga

  • Geochemistry of hydrothermally altered basaltic rocks from the Southwest Indian Ridge near the Rodriguez Triple Junction

    Kentaro Nakamura;Yasuhiro Kato;Kensaku Tamaki;Teruaki Ishii

  • Chemostratigraphy of deep-sea sediments in the western North Pacific Ocean: Implications for genesis of mud highly enriched in rare-earth elements and yttrium

    Erika Tanaka;Kentaro Nakamura;Kazutaka Yasukawa;Kazutaka Yasukawa;Kazuhide Mimura

  • Petrology and geochemistry of cross‐chains in the Izu‐Bonin back arc: Three mantle components with contributions of hydrous liquids from a deeply subducted slab

    Shiki Machida;Teruaki Ishii;Teruaki Ishii;Jun Ichi Kimura;Jun Ichi Kimura;Shunsaku Awaji

  • Statistic and Isotopic Characterization of Deep-Sea Sediments in the Western North Pacific Ocean: Implications for Genesis of the Sediment Extremely Enriched in Rare Earth Elements

    Kazutaka Yasukawa;Kazutaka Yasukawa;Junichiro Ohta;Junichiro Ohta;Takashi Miyazaki;Bogdan Stefanov Vaglarov

  • Hematite formation by oxygenated groundwater more than 2.76 billion years ago

    Yasuhiro Kato;Katsuhiko Suzuki;Kentaro Nakamura;Arthur H. Hickman

Frequent Co-Authors

Kentaro Nakamura
Kentaro Nakamura Tokyo Institute of Technology
Katsuhiko Suzuki
Katsuhiko Suzuki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Hikaru Iwamori
Hikaru Iwamori University of Tokyo
Jun-Ichi Kimura
Jun-Ichi Kimura Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Qing Chang
Qing Chang Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Teruaki Ishii
Teruaki Ishii Shizuoka University
Minoru Ikehara
Minoru Ikehara Kōchi University
Takafumi Hirata
Takafumi Hirata University of Tokyo
Tetsuro Urabe
Tetsuro Urabe University of Tokyo
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi Kobe University

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