Research theme for competitive and other funds (4)：
2019 - 2022 Oceanic plateau-origin rocks in orogenic belts: Towards understanding the genesis of oceanic LIP
2016 - 2019 Metasomatic process of the mantle wedge recorded in basal peridotites from the Oman ophiolite
2011 - 2012 Carbon cycling in the subduction zones deduced from in-situ Carbon isotope analyses
2006 - 2008 Formation of crust-mantle boundary in the mid-ocean ridge
Papers (166)：
Yuji Ichiyama, Hisatoshi Ito, Akihiro Tamura, Tomoaki Morishita. Mafic veins in the mantle section of the Oman ophiolite: Petrological and geochronological insights from the Oman Drilling Project cores. Lithos. 2024. 478-479
Norikatsu Akizawa, Kazuhito Ozawa, Tetsu Kogiso, Akira Ishikawa, Akira Miyake, Yohei Igami, Simon R. Wallis, Takayoshi Nagaya, Chihiro Ohshima, Ryo Fujita, et al. Evidence for suboceanic small-scale convection from a “garnet”-bearing lherzolite xenolith from Aitutaki Island, Cook Islands. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. 2024. 11. 1
Kazuto Mikuni, Naoto Hirano, Shiki MacHida, Hirochika Sumino, Norikatsu Akizawa, Akihiro Tamura, Tomoaki Morishita, Yasuhiro Kato. Contribution of carbonatite and recycled oceanic crust to petit-spot lavas on the western Pacific Plate. Solid Earth. 2024. 15. 2. 167-196
Shoji Arai, Terumi Ejima, Akihiro Tamura, Emi Wako, Tomoaki Morishita, Satoko Ishimaru. Characteristics of serpentinite cobbles from Takase and Kashima Rivers, central Japan, and their geologic implications: an example of the importance of river cobble petrology. The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan. 2023. 129. 1. 643-654
Kazuto Mikuni, Naoto Hirano, Shiki Machida, Hirochika Sumino, Norikatsu Akizawa, Akihiro Tamura, Tomoaki Morishita, Yasuhiro Kato. Carbonatite-induced petit-spot melts squeezed upward from the asthenosphere beneath the Jurassic Pacific Plate. 2023
西尾郁也, 森下知晃, GUOTANA Juan Miguel, 田村明弘, 板野敬太, SZILAS Kristoffer, 針金由美子, 谷健一郎, PEARSON D. Graham. Metasomatism, metamorphism and origin of the Mesoarchean Ulamertoq ultramafic body in southern West Greenland. 日本鉱物科学会年会講演要旨(Web). 2020. 2020
