Takaaki KAWAZOE

Affiliation:	Deptartment of Earth and Planetary Systems Science,
	Graduate School of Science
Title:	Associate professor
Room:	A609
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Research Topics

• High-pressure mineral physics
• Deep Earth rheology

Courses in Charge

• Undergraduate course: Practice of Earth and planetary systems science B, Physics of Earth and planetary interiors B, etc.
• Graduate course: Dynamics in the Earth, Deep Earth materials science, etc.

Selected Publications

1. T. Kawazoe, Y. Nishihara, T. Ohuchi, N. Miyajima, G. Maruyama, Y. Higo, K. Funakoshi, and T. Irifune (2016), Creep strength of ringwoodite measured at pressure-temperature conditions of the lower part of the mantle transition zone using a deformation-DIA apparatus, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 454, 10-19.
2. T. Kawazoe, T. Ohuchi, Y. Nishihara, N. Nishiyama, K. Fujino, and T. Irifune (2013), Seismic anisotropy in the mantle transition zone induced by shear deformation of wadsleyite, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 216, 91-98.
3. T. Kawazoe, S. Karato, K. Otsuka, Z. Jing, and M. Mookherjee (2009), Shear deformation of dry polycrystalline olivine under deep mantle conditions using a rotational Drickamer apparatus (RDA), Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 174 (1), 128-137.