Arata Sugimura
Commendation
for outstanding contributions to geology, in particular to the understanding of island arc tectonics and the neotectonics of the Japanese islands.
A list of five major papers
- Sugimura,A. Matsuda,T.Chinzei,K.Nakamura,K.(1963) Quantitative distribution of late Cenozoic volcanic materials in Japan. Bulletin volcanologique, 26,125-140
- Sugimura, A., Matsuda, T. (1965) Atera fault and its displacement vectors. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 76(5), 509-522.
- Sugimura, A., Uyeda, S. (1967) A possible anisotropy of the upper mantle accounting for deep earthquake faulting. Tectonophysics, 5(1), 25-33.
- Sugimura, A. (1968) Spatial relations of basaltic magmas in island arcs. In: Hess, H.H. and Poldervaart, A. (eds.) Basalts: the Poldervaart treatise on rocks of basaltic composition. Wiley-Interscience, New York, Vol. 2, pp. 537-571.
- Sugimura, A. (1974) Comparison of recent crustal movements with Quaternary movements in Japan and its plate-tectonic implication. Tectonophysics, 23(4), 435-436.
Nominator
Akira Ishiwatari