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Ikuo KATAYAMA

Affiliation Earth and Planetary Systems Science Program, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering
Title Professor
Room A614
E-mail katayama[at]hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Research Topics

  • Rock rheology

Courses in Charge

Undergraduate coursePetrology, Rock deformation, Optical crystallography laboratory, etc.
Graduate courseRheology and deformation microstructures of the Earth materials, Faults and earthquakes, etc.

Selected Publications

  1. Katayama, I. Terada, T., Okazaki, K. and Tanikawa, W. 2012. Episodic tremor and slow slip potentially linked to permeability contrasts at the Moho. Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo1559.
  2. Katayama, I., Hirauchi, K., Michibayashi, K. and Ando, J. 2009. Trench-parallel anisotropy produced by serpentine deformation in the hydrated mantle wedge. Nature, 461, 1114-1117.