Mitsuhiro Toriumi
Commendation
For outstanding contributions to petrology and mathematical geoscience through novel concepts such as rheology, non-equilibrium and non-linear sciences
A list of five major papers
A mechanism of shape-transformation of quartz inclusions in albite of regional metamorphic rocks. Lithos, 12, 325-333, 1979. (Toriumi, M.)
Grain boundary migration in olivine at atmospheric pressure. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 30, 26-35, 1982. (Toriumi, M.)
Mechanical segregation of garnet in synmetamorphic flow of pelitic schists. Journal of Petrology, 27, 6, 1395-1408, 1986. (Toriumi, M.)
The transition from brittle to ductile deformation in the Sambagawa metamorphic belt, Japan. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 8, 457-466, 1990. (Toriumi, M.)
Crack geometries and deformation by the crack-seal mechanism in the Sambagawa metamorphic belt. Tectonophysics, 245, 249-261, 1995. (Toriumi, M. and Hara, E.)
Nominator
Tadao Nishiyama