Geology Group, National Institute of Polar Research, Japan

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Geology Group
National Institute of Polar Research
10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
(Research Organization of Information and Systems)

Last modified: 1/Apr/2015

NIPR has moved from Itabashi to Tachikawa on May 2009

Members

Kazuyuki Shiraishi	Director-General	Geology & Petrology	[Link]
Yoichi Motoyoshi	Professor	Geology & Petrology	[Link]
Tomokazu Hokada	Associate Professor	Geology & Petrology	[Link]
Kenji Horie	Assistant Professor	Isotope geochemistry
Mami Takehara	PD Research Fellow
Chiaki Ikawa	Ph.D. student

[Link to NIPR SHRIMP Laboratory]

Recent Publications

- Original Articles (Selected articles after 2003)

Horie K., Takehara M., Suda Y. and Hidaka H. (2013): Potential Mesozoic reference zircon from Unazuki plutonic complex: geochronological and geochemical characterization. Island Arc, 22, 292?305.

Hokada, T., Horie, K., Adachi, T., Osanai, Y., Nakano, N., Baba, S. and Toyoshima, T. (2013): Unraveling the metamorphic history at the crossing of Neoproterozoic orogens, Sor Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica: Constraints from U-Th-Pb geochronology, petrography, and REE geochemistry. Precambrian Research, 234, 183-209.

Hokada, T., Horie, K., Satish-Kumar, M., Ueno, Y., Nasheeth, A., Mishima, K. and Shiraishi, K. (2013): An appraisal of Archaean supracrustal sequences in Chitradurga Schist Belt, Western Dharwar Craton, Southern India. Precambrian Research, 227, 99-119.

Horie, K., Hokada, T., Hiroi Y., Motoyoshi, Y. and Shiraishi, K. (2012): Contrasting Archaean crustal records in western part of the Napier Complex, East Antarctica: New constraints from SHRIMP geochronology. Gondwana Research, 21, 829-837.

Horie, K., Tsutsumi, Y., Cho, M., Morishita, Y. and Hidaka, H. (2010): Crystallization of REE minerals and redistribution of U, Th, and REE at contact boundary between granite and gabbro during hydrothermal alteration. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 35, 284-291.

Horie, K., Nutman, A.P., Friend, C.R.L. and Hidaka, H. (2010): The complex age of orthogneiss protoliths exemplified by the Eoarchaean Itsaq Gneiss Complex (Greenland): SHRIMP and old rocks. Precambrian Research, 183, 25-43.

Horie, K., Yamashita, M., Hayasaka, Y., Katoh, Y., Tsutsumi, Y., Katsube, A., Hidaka, H., Kim, H. and Cho, M. (2010): Eoarchean-Paleoproterozoic zircon inheritance in Japanese Permo-Triassic granites (Unazuki area, Hida Metamorphic Complex): Unearthing more old crust and identifying source terrranes. Precambrian Research, 183, 145-157.

Adachi, T., Hokada, T., Osanai, Y., Toyoshima, T., Baba, S. and Nakano, N. (2010): Titanium behavior in quartz during retrograde hydration: occurrence of rutile exsolution and implications for metamorphic processes in the Sor Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica. Polar Science, 3, 222-234.

Horie, K., Tsutsumi, Y., Kim, H., Cho, M., Hidaka, H. and Terada, K. (2009): A geochronological study of the Busan gneiss complex, Gyeonggi massif, Korea. Geosciences Journal, 13, 205-215.

Dunkley D.J., Suzuki K., Hokada T. and Kusiak M.A. (2008): Contrasting ages between isotopic chronometers in granulites: monazite dating and metamorphism in the Higo Complex, Japan. Gondwana Research, 14, 624-643.

Shiraishi, K., Dunkley, D.J., Hokada, T., Fanning, C.M., Kagami, H. and Hamamoto, T. (2008): Geochronological constraints on the Late Proterozoic to Cambrian crustal evolution of eastern Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica: a synthesis of SHRIMP U-Pb age and Nd model age data. In: Geodynamic evolution of East Antarctica: a Key to the East-West Gondwana Connection, eds by M. Satish-Kumar et al., Geological Society of London Special Publications, 308, 21-67.

Hokada, T., Motoyoshi, Y., Suzuki, S., Ishikawa, M. and Ishizuka, H. (2008): Geodynamic evolution of Mt. Riiser-Larsen, Napier Complex, East Antarctica, with reference to the UHT mineral associations and their reaction relations. In: Geodynamic evolution of East Antarctica: a Key to the East-West Gondwana Connection, eds by M. Satish-Kumar et al., Geological Society of London Special Publications, 308, 255-284.

Hokada, T. (2007): Perrierite in sapphirine-quartz gneiss: geochemical and geochronological features and implications for accessory-phase paragenesis of UHT metamorphism. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 102, 44-49.

Hokada, T. and Suzuki, S. (2006): Feldspar in felsic orthogneiss as indicator for UHT crustal processes. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 101, 260-264.

Hokada, T. and Motoyoshi, Y. (2006): Electron microprobe technique for U-Th-Pb and REE chemistry of monazite, and its implications for pre-, peak- and post-metamorphic events of the L?tzow-Holm Complex and the Napier Complex, East Antarcticat. Polar Geoscience, 19, 118-151.

Motoyoshi, Y., Hokada, T. and Shiraishi, K. (2006): Electron microprobe (EMP) dating on monazite from Forefinger Point granulites, East Antarctica: Implication for the Pan-African overprint. In: Antarctica - Contributions to Global Earth Sciences, ed. by Futterer, D.K., ISAES IX Proceedings Volume, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heiderberg New York, 63-68.

Hokada, T. and Harley, S.L., (2004): Zircon growth in UHT leucosome: constraints from zircon-garnet rare earth elements (REE) relations in Napier Complex, East Antarctica. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 99, 180-190.

Hokada, T., Misawa, K., Yokoyama, K., Shiraishi, K. and Yamaguchi, A., (2004): SHRIMP and electron microprobe chronology of UHT metamorphism in the Napier Complex, East Antarctica: implications for zircon growth at >1000 C. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 147, 1-20.

Shiraishi, K., Hokada, T., Fanning, C.M., Misawa, K. and Motoyoshi, Y., (2003): Timing of thermal events in eastern Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Polar Geoscience, 16, 76-99. [PDF]

Hokada, T., Misawa, K., Shiraishi, K. and Suzuki, S., (2003): Mid to Late Archaean (3.3-2.5 Ga) tonalitic crustal formation and high-grade metamorphism at Mt. Riiser-Larsen, Napier Complex, East Antarctica. Precambrian Research, 127, 215-228.

Facilities

- Ion Microprobe SHRIMP II
[Link to SHRIMP Laboratory]

- Electron Microprobe JEOL JXA-8200
- Laser Raman JASCO NRS-1000
- XRF RIGAKU RIX3000

(Polar Research Resources Center) - Electron Microprobe JEOL JXA-8800M
(Polar Research Resources Center) - Scanning Electron Microscope JEOL JSM-5900LV

Rocks from Antarctica

- Collection of rocks and minerals from Antarctica

Link

- National Institute of Polar Research [Home]
- Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE)
- Department of Polar Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

Geology Group, National Institute of Polar Research, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
(Research Organization of Information and Systems)