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Yoshihiro Asahara

Yoshihiro Asahara

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Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
5687
World Ranking
7518
National Ranking
217

Overview

Yoshihiro Asahara is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Geophysics. Their research output spans several interrelated subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The primary topics that characterize Asahara's work encompass geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, as well as high-pressure geophysics and materials. Other areas reflected in their publications include geochemistry and elemental analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, and the study of geological formations and processes.

Asahara's recent papers highlight ongoing research in volcanic and magmatic systems, along with geochemical characterization of geological formations. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Anatomy of the magmatic plumbing system of Los Humeros Caldera (Mexico): implications for geothermal systems," 2020, Solid Earth
  • "Long-lived, Eocene-Miocene stationary magmatism in NW Iran along a transform plate boundary," 2020, Gondwana Research
  • "A new perspective on Cenozoic calc-alkaline and shoshonitic volcanic rocks, eastern Saveh (central Iran)," 2020, International Geology Review
  • "Zircon U-Pb ages, geochemistry, and Sr-Nd isotope ratios for early cretaceous magmatic rocks, southern Saqqez, northwestern Iran," 2020, Geochemistry
  • "Geochronology and petrogenesis of the Late Neoproterozoic granitic gneisses of Golpayegan metamorphic complex: a new respect for Cadomian crust in the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, Iran," 2020, International Geology Review

The frequent co-authors associated with Asahara include Hossein Azizi, Masayo Minami, Motohiro Tsuboi, Fatemeh Nouri, and Ali Reza Davoudian. Collaborative works with these researchers contribute to the diversity and breadth of Asahara's studies across various geological and geochemical disciplines.

Asahara's research is commonly published in journals and venues focused on geosciences, with frequent publications in Lithos, International Geology Review, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL, and Geochemistry.

Best Publications

  • JNdi-1: a neodymium isotopic reference in consistency with LaJolla neodymium

    Tsuyoshi Tanaka;Shigeko Togashi;Hikari Kamioka;Hiroshi Amakawa

  • Asian continental nature of87Sr/86Sr ratios in north central Pacific sediments

    Yoshihiro Asahara;Tsuyoshi Tanaka;Hikari Kamioka;Akira Nishimura

  • 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

  • The redox state of the mantle during and just after core formation.

    D. J. Frost;U. Mann;U. Mann;Yuki Asahara;D. C. Rubie

  • Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of high-K granite from the Suffi abad area, Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, NW Iran

    Hossein Azizi;Yoshihiro Asahara;Behzad Mehrabi;Sun Lin Chung

  • Isotopic dating of the Khoy metamorphic complex (KMC), northwestern Iran: A significant revision of the formation age and magma source

    Hossein Azizi;Sun-Lin Chung;Tsuyoshi Tanaka;Yoshihiro Asahara

  • Geochemical and isotopic constraints on the age and origin of the Nidar Ophiolitic Complex, Ladakh, India: Implications for the Neo-Tethyan subduction along the Indus suture zone

    T. Ahmad;T. Tanaka;H.K. Sachan;Y. Asahara

  • Juvenile granite in the Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone, NW Iran: Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous arc–continent collision

    Hossein Azizi;Yoshihiro Asahara

  • Systematic variations in C, O, and Sr isotopes and elemental concentrations in Neoproterozoic carbonates in Namibia: implications for a glacial to interglacial transition

    Hideyoshi Yoshioka;Yoshihiro Asahara;Bunji Tojo;Shin-ichi Kawakami

  • Intermediate water formation in the Bering Sea during glacial periods: Evidence from neodymium isotope ratios

    Keiji Horikawa;Yoshihiro Asahara;Koshi Yamamoto;Yusuke Okazaki

  • Zircon U–Pb ages and petrogenesis of a tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG) complex in the northern Sanandaj–Sirjan zone, northwest Iran: Evidence for Late Jurassic arc–continent collision

    Hossein Azizi;Mina Zanjefili-Beiranvand;Yoshihiro Asahara

  • Rare earth element and strontium isotopic study of seamount-type limestones in Mesozoic accretionary complex of Southern Chichibu Terrane, central Japan: Implication for incorporation process of seawater REE into limestones

    Kazuya Tanaka;Noriko Miura;Yoshihiro Asahara;Iwao Kawabe

  • Provenance of terrigenous detritus of the surface sediments in the Bering and Chukchi Seas as derived from Sr and Nd isotopes: Implications for recent climate change in the Arctic regions

    Yoshihiro Asahara;Fumi Takeuchi;Kana Nagashima;Naomi Harada

  • Age and early metamorphic history of the Sanbagawa belt: Lu-Hf andP-Tconstraints from the Western Iratsu eclogite

    S. Endo;S. Wallis;T. Hirata;R. Anczkiewicz

  • A Paleoarchean coastal hydrothermal field inhabited by diverse microbial communities: The Strelley Pool Formation, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

    K. Sugitani;K. Sugitani;K. Mimura;M. Takeuchi;T. Yamaguchi

  • Anatomy of the magmatic plumbing system of Los Humeros Caldera (Mexico): implications for geothermal systems

    Federico Lucci;Gerardo Carrasco-Núñez;Federico Rossetti;Thomas Theye

  • Discrimination of the age and tectonic setting for magmatic rocks along the Zagros thrust zone, northwest Iran, using the zircon U–Pb age and Sr–Nd isotopes

    Hossein Azizi;Tsuyoshi Tanaka;Yoshihiro Asahara;Sun Lin Chung

  • Early post-mortem formation of carbonate concretions around tusk-shells over week-month timescales.

    Hidekazu Yoshida;Atsushi Ujihara;Masayo Minami;Yoshihiro Asahara

  • The Late Jurassic Panjeh submarine volcano in the northern Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, northwest Iran: Mantle plume or active margin?

    Hossein Azizi;Federico Lucci;Robert J. Stern;Shima Hasannejad

  • New evidence for Jurassic continental rifting in the northern Sanandaj Sirjan Zone, western Iran: the Ghalaylan seamount, southwest Ghorveh

    Hossein Azizi;Fatemeh Nouri;Robert J. Stern;Marie Azizi

  • U–Pb zircon ages and geochemistry of Kangareh and Taghiabad mafic bodies in northern Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone, Iran: Evidence for intra-oceanic arc and back-arc tectonic regime in Late Jurassic

    Hossein Azizi;Mohammad Najari;Yoshihiro Asahara;Elizabeth Jacqueline Catlos

  • Age, geochemistry, and emplacement of the ~40-Ma Baneh granite–appinite complex in a transpressional tectonic regime, Zagros suture zone, northwest Iran

    Hossein Azizi;Sepideh Hadad;Robert J. Stern;Yoshihiro Asahara

Frequent Co-Authors

Koshi Yamamoto
Koshi Yamamoto Nagoya University
Simon Wallis
Simon Wallis University of Tokyo
Minoru Ikehara
Minoru Ikehara Kōchi University
Robert J. Stern
Robert J. Stern The University of Texas at Dallas
Yasufumi Iryu
Yasufumi Iryu Tohoku University
Franz Neubauer
Franz Neubauer University of Salzburg
Sun-Lin Chung
Sun-Lin Chung National Taiwan University
Takeshi Nakatsuka
Takeshi Nakatsuka Nagoya University
Yasushi Yamaguchi
Yasushi Yamaguchi Nagoya University
Yunpeng Dong
Yunpeng Dong Northwest University

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