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Yukio Isozaki

Yukio Isozaki

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52
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12696
World Ranking
2984
National Ranking
64

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Yukio Isozaki is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including Geophysics, Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, and Astronomy and Astrophysics. The primary focus of their research lies in geological and geochemical analysis, stratigraphy of fossils, tectonic and earthquake studies, as well as geologic mapping and paleoclimatology.

Over their career, Isozaki has contributed extensively to topics such as:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Astro and Planetary Science

Isozaki's frequent coauthors include Yukiyasu Tsutsumi, Masafumi Saitoh, Ryo Hasegawa, Yusuke Sawaki, and Shigenori Maruyama. Their collaborative work reflects diverse contributions across multiple aspects of earth sciences.

The researcher's publications are often featured in several notable journals, with the most frequent venues including:

  • Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi)
  • Island Arc
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan
  • Paleontological Research

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Isozaki are:

  • Development of Deep-Sea Anoxia in Panthalassa During the Lopingian (Late Permian): Insights From Redox-Sensitive Elements and Multivariate Analysis, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Carbon Isotope Chemostratigraphy Across the Permian-Triassic Boundary at Chaotian, China: Implications for the Global Methane Cycle in the Aftermath of the Extinction, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Fragmented Ancient Fore-arc Basin: Cretaceous-Paleogene Sandstones Sporadically Found in Kanto and Southern Tohoku, Japan, as Eastern Extensions of the Izumi Group, 2020, Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi)
  • Secular Changes in Fore-arc Sandstones and Their Provenance in Cretaceous Southwest Japan: U-Pb Dating of Detrital Zircons, 2020, Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi)
  • Multiple sulfur isotope chemostratigraphy across the Permian-Triassic boundary at Chaotian, China: Implications for a shoaling model of toxic deep-waters, 2021, Island Arc

Yukio Isozaki was recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Paleogeographic maps of the Japanese Islands: Plate tectonic synthesis from 750 Ma to the present

    Shigenori Maruyama;Yukio Isozaki;Gaku Kimura;Masaru Terabayashi

  • Permo-Triassic Boundary Superanoxia and Stratified Superocean: Records from Lost Deep Sea

    Yukio Isozaki

  • Accreted oceanic materials in Japan

    Y. Isozaki;S. Maruyama;F. Furuoka

  • New insight into a subduction-related orogen: A reappraisal of the geotectonic framework and evolution of the Japanese Islands

    Yukio Isozaki;Kazumasa Aoki;Takaaki Nakama;Shuichi Yanai

  • Evidence from fluid inclusions for microbial methanogenesis in the early Archaean era

    Yuichiro Ueno;Keita Yamada;Naohiro Yoshida;Shigenori Maruyama

  • Well‐documented travel history of Mesozoic pelagic chert in Japan: From remote ocean to subduction zone

    Tetsuo Matsuda;Yukio Isozaki

  • Jurassic accretion tectonics of Japan

    Yukio Isozaki

  • Anatomy and genesis of a subduction‐related orogen: A new view of geotectonic subdivision and evolution of the Japanese Islands

    Yukio Isozaki

  • Studies on Orogeny based on Plate Tectonics in Japan and New Geotectonic Subdivision of the Japanese Islands

    Yukio Isozaki;Shigenori Maruyama

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

    Yasuhiro Kato;Kyoko Nakao;Yukio Isozaki

  • 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

  • Carbon Isotopic Signatures of Individual Archean Microfossils(?) from Western Australia

    Yuichiro Ueno;Yukio Isozaki;Hisayoshi Yurimoto;Shigenori Maruyama

  • TRIASSIC AND JURASSIC RADIOLARIANS FROM THE INUYAMA AREA, CENTRAL JAPAN

    Akira Yao;Tetsuo Mtsuda;Yukio Isozaki

  • Chronology of Sanbagawa metamorphism

    Y. Isozaki;T. Itaya

  • A unique carbon isotope record across the Guadalupian¿Lopingian (Middle¿Upper Permian) boundary in mid-oceanic paleo-atoll carbonates: The high-productivity ¿Kamura event¿ and its collapse in Panthalassa

    Yukio Isozaki;Hodaka Kawahata;Ayano Ota

  • Illawarra Reversal: The fingerprint of a superplume that triggered Pangean breakup and the end-Guadalupian (Permian) mass extinction

    Yukio Isozaki

  • Contrasting two types of orogen in Permo-Triassic Japan : Accretionary versus collisional

    Yukio Isozaki

  • Carbon isotopes and petrography of kerogens in ~ 3.5-Ga hydrothermal silica dikes in the North Pole area, Western Australia

    Yuichiro Ueno;Yuichiro Ueno;Hideyoshi Yoshioka;Shigenori Maruyama;Yukio Isozaki

  • The Capitanian (Permian) Kamura cooling event: The beginning of the Paleozoic-Mesozoic transition

    Yukio Isozaki;Hodaka Kawahata;Kayo Minoshima

  • Birth and early evolution of metazoans

    Degan Shu;Yukio Isozaki;Xingliang Zhang;Jan Han

  • Superanoxia Across the Permo-Triassic Boundary: Record in Accreted Deep-Sea Pelagic Chert in Japan

    Yukio Isozaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigenori Maruyama
Shigenori Maruyama Tokyo Institute of Technology
Takafumi Hirata
Takafumi Hirata University of Tokyo
Yuichiro Ueno
Yuichiro Ueno Tokyo Institute of Technology
Naohiro Yoshida
Naohiro Yoshida Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hodaka Kawahata
Hodaka Kawahata University of Tokyo
Tetsumaru Itaya
Tetsumaru Itaya Okayama University of Science
Brian F. Windley
Brian F. Windley University of Leicester
Yuji Sano
Yuji Sano Kōchi University
Joseph L. Kirschvink
Joseph L. Kirschvink California Institute of Technology
Dapeng Zhao
Dapeng Zhao Tohoku University

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