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5. Biogeosciences

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  1. Content type: Research article

    The evaporites of the Realmonte salt mine (Sicily, Italy) are important archives recording the most extreme conditions of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). However, geochemical approach on these evaporitic ...

    Authors: Yuta Isaji, Toshihiro Yoshimura, Junichiro Kuroda, Yusuke Tamenori, Francisco J. Jiménez-Espejo, Stefano Lugli, Vinicio Manzi, Marco Roveri, Hodaka Kawahata and Naohiko Ohkouchi

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2019 6:60

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  2. Content type: Research article

    Megathrust earthquakes of magnitude ~ 8 and ensuing large tsunamis occur along the Nankai and Suruga troughs, central Japan, with a recurrence interval of 90–270 years since an AD 684 Hakuho earthquake. Histor...

    Authors: Akihisa Kitamura, Tomoya Ina, Daisuke Suzuki, Keito Tsutahara, Daisuke Sugawara, Kazuyoshi Yamada and Akira Aoshima

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2019 6:57

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  3. Content type: Research article

    Stable carbon (δ13C) and oxygen isotope (δ18O) compositions of fossil brachiopod shells can be used to interpret paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic conditions. However, the initial isotopic composition of the li...

    Authors: Hiroshi Fujioka, Hideko Takayanagi, Koshi Yamamoto and Yasufumi Iryu

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2019 6:45

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  4. Content type: Research article

    Habitat evolution of a peat swamp forest and belowground carbon storage was examined in a coastal lowland along the eastern coast of Central Sumatra, Indonesia. Boring surveys using a hand-operated peat sample...

    Authors: Kiyoshi Fujimoto, Masafumi Miura, Shigeo Kobayashi and Herwint Simbolon

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2019 6:41

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  5. Content type: Research article

    The East China Sea (ECS) is a shallow marginal sea that is sensitive to glacio-eustatic sea-level changes and is influenced by warm oligotrophic water of the Kuroshio Current (KC), the nutrient-rich Taiwan War...

    Authors: Kenji M. Matsuzaki, Takuya Itaki and Ryuji Tada

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2019 6:22

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  6. Content type: Review

    The CO2 concentration of air has increased over the last two centuries and recently surpassed 400 ppm. Carbon cycle models project CO2 concentrations of 720 to 1000 ppm for the IPCC intermediate scenario (RCP 6.0...

    Authors: Hodaka Kawahata, Kazuhiko Fujita, Akira Iguchi, Mayuri Inoue, Shinya Iwasaki, Azumi Kuroyanagi, Ayumi Maeda, Takuya Manaka, Kazuyoshi Moriya, Haruka Takagi, Takashi Toyofuku, Toshihiro Yoshimura and Atsushi Suzuki

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2019 6:5

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  7. Content type: Research article

    Carbonaceous matter in ~ 3.5 Ga hydrothermal vein deposits from the Dresser Formation, Western Australia, was analyzed using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) microspectroscopy. Based on the spectroscopy, the ...

    Authors: Motoko Igisu, Yuichiro Ueno and Ken Takai

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:85

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  8. Content type: Research article

    South Chamorro Seamount (SCS) is a blueschist-bearing serpentinite mud volcano in the Mariana forearc. Previous scientific drilling conducted at SCS revealed highly alkaline, sulfate-rich formation fluids resu...

    Authors: Shinsuke Kawagucci, Junichi Miyazaki, Yuki Morono, Jeff S. Seewald, C. Geoff Wheat and Ken Takai

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:74

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  9. Content type: Research article

    This study assessed historical changes in emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas and stratospheric ozone-depleting substance, from the soils of East Asia to the atmosphere. A process-based terr...

    Authors: Akihiko Ito, Kazuya Nishina, Kentaro Ishijima, Shoji Hashimoto and Motoko Inatomi

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:55

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  10. Content type: Research article

    Previous studies showed that the evolution of the Japan Sea paleoceanography since the Miocene has been influenced by the regional tectonism (e.g., opening/closing of the connecting seaways) and regional/globa...

    Authors: Kenji M. Matsuzaki, Takuya Itaki, Ryuji Tada and Shin-ichi Kamikuri

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:54

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  11. Content type: Research article

    Four ancient tsunami deposits were identified in a trench excavated on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan. Three of the tsunami deposits (T-I, T-II, and T-IV) consist of calcareous sand beds, whereas the other (T...

    Authors: Akihisa Kitamura, Mami Ito, Ryoya Ikuta and Masayuki Ikeda

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:41

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  12. Content type: Correction

    In the publication of this article (Kitamura et al., 2017), there was an error in Fig. 11 which incorrectly indicated ‘Serpulidae sp. should instead read ‘Serpulidae.’ Italicized. It should not have indicated fig...

    Authors: Akihisa Kitamura, Takafumi Imai, Yuta Mitsui, Mami Ito, Yosuke Miyairi, Yusuke Yokoyama and Yuki Tokuda

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:35

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    The original article was published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:30

  13. Content type: Research article

    It was previously revealed that the total CO2 concentration in seawater decreased during the Late Archean. In this paper, to assess the secular change of total CO2 concentration in seawater, we focused on the Pal...

    Authors: Takazo Shibuya, Tsuyoshi Komiya, Ken Takai, Shigenori Maruyama and Michael J. Russell

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:31

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  14. Content type: Research article

    To clarify the Holocene uplift history of the Izu Islands, Japan, we analyze the elevations and 14C ages of emerged sessile assemblages measured by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) on the islands of Niijima, J...

    Authors: Akihisa Kitamura, Takafumi Imai, Yuta Mitsui, Mami Ito, Yosuke Miyairi, Yusuke Yokoyama and Yuki Tokuda

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:30

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:35

  15. Content type: Research article

    High-resolution mapping along the coast and time-series measurements of the radon-222 (222Rn) concentrations in the shallow zone in a semi-enclosed sea, Obama Bay, Japan, were undertaken in 2013. The temporal and...

    Authors: Shiho Kobayashi, Ryo Sugimoto, Hisami Honda, Yoji Miyata, Daisuke Tahara, Osamu Tominaga, Jun Shoji, Makoto Yamada, Satoshi Nakada and Makoto Taniguchi

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:6

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  16. Content type: Research article

    The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) account for a large part of modern climate variability. Over the last decades, understanding of these modes of climate variabil...

    Authors: Luc Beaufort and Michaël Grelaud

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:5

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  17. Content type: Research article

    To understand the chemical nature of hydrothermal fluids in the komatiite-hosted seafloor hydrothermal system in the Hadean, we conducted two hydrothermal serpentinization experiments involving synthetic komat...

    Authors: Hisahiro Ueda, Takazo Shibuya, Yusuke Sawaki, Masafumi Saitoh, Ken Takai and Shigenori Maruyama

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2016 3:35

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  18. Content type: Research article

    Hydrogen and carbon isotope systematics of H2O–H2–CO2–CH4 in hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis and their relation to H2 availability were investigated. Two H2-syntrophic cocultures of fermentatively hydrogenogenic ...

    Authors: Tomoyo Okumura, Shinsuke Kawagucci, Yayoi Saito, Yohei Matsui, Ken Takai and Hiroyuki Imachi

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2016 3:14

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  19. Content type: Research article

    Japanese historical documents reveal that Mw 8 class earthquakes have occurred every 100–150 years along the Suruga and Nankai troughs since the 684 Hakuho earthquake. These earthquakes have commonly caused la...

    Authors: Akihisa Kitamura

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2016 3:12

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  20. Content type: Research article

    Serpentinization of Al-depleted and Al-undepleted komatiites (and olivine for comparison) was experimentally characterized under high-temperature and high-pressure conditions of 300 °C and 500 bar to evaluate ...

    Authors: Takazo Shibuya, Motoko Yoshizaki, Masahiko Sato, Kenji Shimizu, Kentaro Nakamura, Soichi Omori, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Ken Takai, Hideo Tsunakawa and Shigenori Maruyama

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2015 2:46

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  21. Content type: Research article

    Carbonate precipitation is a major process in the global carbon cycle. It was recently proposed that authigenic carbonate (carbonate precipitated in situ at the sediment–water interface and/or within the sedim...

    Authors: Masafumi Saitoh, Yuichiro Ueno, Yukio Isozaki, Takazo Shibuya, Jianxin Yao, Zhansheng Ji, Katsumi Shozugawa, Motoyuki Matsuo and Naohiro Yoshida

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2015 2:41

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  22. Content type: Review

    In the past few decades, chemosynthetic ecosystems at deep-sea hydrothermal vents have received attention as plausible analogues to the early ecosystems of Earth, as well as to extraterrestrial ecosystems. The...

    Authors: Kentaro Nakamura and Ken Takai

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2014 1:5

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