NORIKATSU AKIZAWA

Last Updated :2025/08/06

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Associate Professor
E-mail
akizawahiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • Kanazawa University
  • Kanazawa University

Research Fields

  • Mathematical and physical sciences;Earth and planetary science;Petrology / Mineralogy / Economic geology

Research Keywords

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Affiliated Academic Societies

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Earth Science A
  2. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Earth Science A
  3. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
  4. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Field Excursion for Earth Science B
  5. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Special Study for Graduation
  6. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Special Study for Graduation
  7. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Solid Geochemistry II
  8. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Survey of Earth and Planetary Systems Science
  9. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Special Exercise for Earth and Planetary Systems Science A
  10. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Special Exercise for Earth and Planetary Systems Science B
  11. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Year, Special Study for Earth and Planetary Systems Science
  12. 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Year, Special Study for Earth and Planetary Systems Science

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. ★, Highly refractory dunite formation in Gibbs Island and Bruce Bank, and its role in the evolution of the circum-Antarctic continent., The Canadian Mineralogist, 59, 202112
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  2. ★, Crustal anorthosite formation by deep-seated hydrothermal circulation beneath fast-spreading axis: Constraints from chronological approach, Sr isotope, and fluid­–chromite inclusion investigation., Island Arc, 30, 202112
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  3. Melting and Evolution of Amphibole-Rich Back-Arc Abyssal Peridotites at the Mado Megamullion, Shikoku Basin., Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, 202111
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  4. Geochemistry of serpentinized and multiphase altered Atlantis Massif peridotites (IODP Expedition 357): Petrogenesis and discrimination of melt-rock vs. fluid-rock processes., Chemical Geology, 594, 202204
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  5. ★, Geochemical characteristics of back-arc basin lower crust and upper mantle at final spreading stage of Shikoku Basin: an example of Mado Megamullion., Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 8, 202111
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  6. ★, A direct evidence for disturbance of whole sediment layer in the subducting Pacific plate by petit-spot magma–water/sediment interaction, Marine Geology, 444, 202112
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  7. The magnesium isotopic compositions of the crust and mantle: A study on the Oman ophiolite, Chemical Geology, 606, 202206
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  8. Thermochemical state of the oceanic lithosphere constrained from oceanic mantle peridotites, 52, 202305
  9. Behavior of water in the lower oceanic crust., Geochemistry, 56, 202209
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  10. Lithological structure of western Pacific lithosphere reconstructed from mantle xenoliths in a petit-spot volcano, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 62, 202211
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  11. Rock and sediment dataset of petit-spots in the northwestern Pacific., Data in Brief, 45, 202211
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  12. Rearing in strontium-enriched water induces vaterite otoliths in the Japanese rice fish, Oryzias latipes, Royal Society Open Science, 10, 202306
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  13. ★, Formation of lower fast-spread oceanic crust: a structural and geochemical study of troctolites in the Hess Deep Rift (East Pacific Rise), Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 10, 202306
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  14. Contribution of carbonatite and recycled oceanic crust to petit-spot lavas on the western Pacific Plate, Solid Earth, 15, 167-196, 202402
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  15. The magmatic conditions and hypersolidus deformation of lower crustal magma chamber below a fast-spreading ridge — Insight from the core analyses of the Oman ICDP drill holes GT1A & GT2A., The Scientific Reports of Kanazawa University, 67, 1-40, 202403
  16. ★, Late dry back-arc magmatism recorded as dolerite dike intrusion in the Mado Megamullion, Shikoku Basin, Geochemical Journal, 58(5), 194-203, 202408
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  17. ★, Evidence for suboceanic small-scale convection from a garnet-bearing lherzolite xenolith from Aitutaki Island, Cook Islands, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 11, 202407
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  18. ★, Stable carbon and oxygen isotope signatures of mantle-derived calcite in Aitutaki lherzolite xenolith: Implications for organic carbon cycle in the oceanic mantle Author links open overlay panel, Marine Geology, 475, 202409
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  19. Intact Pacific oceanic crust captured as mafic xenoliths in a petit-spot volcano, Marine Geology, 483, 202503
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  20. Heterogeneous Earths mantle drilled at an embryonic ocean, Nature Communications, 16, 20250227
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  21. Tyrrhenian Continent–Ocean Transition, Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 402, 202504
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Publications such as books

  1. 2023/06, Core-Mantle Co-Evolution: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Deciphering Deep Mantle Processes from Isotopic and Highly Siderophile Element Compositions of Mantle-Derived Rocks: Prospects and Limitations, 2023, 06, Scholarly Book, Joint work, Suzuki, K., Shimoda, G., Ishikawa, A., Kogiso, T., Akizawa, N., 9781119526919
  2. 2020/06/10, Latest Earth, Mantle press, 2020, 2020, Scholarly Book, Editor, Norikatsu Akizawa, Ozawa Kazuhito, 978-4-908703-84-3

Social Activities

History as Committee Members

  1. Councilor of Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences, 2024/09, 2026/08, Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences