logo Hiroshima University, Faculty of Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Systems
Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Earth and Planetary Systems Studies Program

MENU

Toru INOUE

Affiliation Department of Earth and Planetary Systems Science, Graduate School of Science
Title Professor
Room A606
E-mail toinoue[at]hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Research Topics

  • High-pressure mineral physics

Courses in Charge

Undergraduate coursePhysics of Earth and planetary interiors B, Practice of Earth and planetary systems science B, etc.
Graduate courseDynamics in the Earth, Deep Earth materials science, etc.

Selected Publications

  1. Inoue, T., T. Wada, R. Sasaki, and H. Yurimoto, Water partitioning in the Earth’s mantle, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 183, 245-251, 2010.
  2. Inoue, T., D.J. Weidner, P.A. Northrup and J.B. Parise, Elastic properties of hydrous ringwoodite (γ-phase) in Mg2SiO4, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 160, 107-113, 1998.
  3. Inoue, T., H. Yurimoto and Y. Kudoh, Hydrous modified spinel, Mg1.75SiH0.5O4: a new water reservoir in the mantle transition region. Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 117-120, 1995.