JpGU Fellowship

Akira Tsuchiyama

Commendation

For leading and innovative contributions to mineralogy, petrology, and tomography of Solar-System materials

A list of five major papers

  • [1] Tsuchiyama, A., H. Nagahara and I. Kushiro (1980) Experimental reproduction of textures of chondrules. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 48, 155-165.
  • [2] Tsuchiyama, A. (1985) Dissolution kinetics of plagioclase in the melt of the system diopside-albite-anorthite, and origin of dusty plagioclase in andesites. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 89, 1-16.
  • [3] Tsuchiyama, A., S. Tachibana, and T. Takahashi (1999) Evaporation of forsterite in the primordial solar nebula; rates and accompanied isotopic fractionation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 63, 2451-2466.
  • [4] Tsuchiyama, A., K. Uesugi, T. Nakano, and S. Ikeda (2005) Quantitative evaluation of attenuation contrast of X-ray computed tomography images using monochromatized beams. American Mineralogist 90, 132-142.
  • [5] Tsuchiyama, A., M. Uesugi, T. Matsushima, T. Michikami, T. Kadono, T. Nakamura, K. Uesugi, T. Nakano, S. A. Sandford, R. Noguchi, T. Matsumoto, J. Matsuno, T. Nagano, Y. Imai, A. Takeuchi, Y. Suzuki, T. Ogami, J. Katagiri, M. Ebihara, T. R. Ireland, F. Kitajima, K. Nagao, H. Naraoka, T. Noguchi, R. Okazaki, H. Yurimoto, M. E. Zolensky, T. Mukai, M. Abe, T. Yada, A. Fujimura, M. Yoshikawa, J. Kawaguchi (2011) Three-Dimensional Structure of Hayabusa Samples: Origin and Evolution of Itokawa Regolith. Science 333, 1125-1128.

Nominator

Shogo Tachibana