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Tomoaki KUBO Last modified date:2023.11.27

Professor / Material Science of Solar Planets
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Faculty of Sciences


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Academic Degree
Doctor of Science
Country of degree conferring institution (Overseas)
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Field of Specialization
Earth and Planetary Interiors, Mineral physics
Total Priod of education and research career in the foreign country
00years06months
Outline Activities
My group studies dynamics of Earth and planetary interiors based on experimental mineral physics at high pressure. We have several high-pressure deformation appratuses, including a deformation Kawai (D-111) type apparatus, a deformation-DIA (D-DIA) apparatus and diamond cells. We also conduct high-pressure in-situ X-ray studies at synchrotron facilities of SPring-8 and Photon Factory. By using these techniques, we study "deep rock dynamics" such as transformation kinetics, rheology, and their interactions in deep Earth materials and planetary ices. Recent and current research topics include metastable transformations and deep earthquakes, weakening of the lower-mantle slabs, internal dynamics of icy bodies, and non-equilibrium reactions in shocked meteorites and diamond inclusions.
Research
Research Interests
  • Syn-deformational reaction processes at high pressures: Implications for deep slab weakening and deep earthquakes
    keyword : grain-size reduction, shear localization, shear instability, AE activity, deep slab deformation, deep earthquake
    2009.05.
  • Rheological properties of deep Earth materials and planetary ices at high pressures
    keyword : rheology, plastic deformation, grain growth, atomic diffusion, high-pressure minerals, planetary ices
    2004.04.
  • Kinetics of high-pressure transformation of deep Earth minerals
    keyword : transformation mechanisms, transformation kinetics, metastable phase, mantle convection, subducting deep slab, shocked meteorites
    2004.04.
  • Developments of in-situ observation method for the study of rheology and transformation kinetics up to the lower mantle condition by using high-pressure deformation apparatus and synchrotron radiation
    keyword : high-pressure and high-temperature experiment, deformation experiment, synchrotron radiation, time-resolved observation, AE measurement system, rheology, kinetics
    2004.04.
Academic Activities
Papers
1. T. KUBO, T. Kato, Y. Higo, K. Funakoshi, Curious kinetic behavior in silica polymorphs solves seifertite puzzle in shocked meteorite, Sci. Adv. 1, e1500075 (2015). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500075, 388, 2015.05.
2. N. Doi, T. Kato, T. Kubo, M. Noda, R. Shiraishi, A. Suzuki, E. Ohtani, T. Kikegawa, Creep behavior during the eutectoid transformation of albite: Implications for the slab deformation in the lower mantle, EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.09.009, 388, 92-97, 2014.02.
3. M. NIshi, Tomoaki KUBO, T. Ohfuji, Takumi Kato, Y. Nishihara, T. Irifune, Slow Si-Al interdiffusion in garnet and stagnation of subducting slabs, EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.11.022, 361, 44-49, 2013.01.
4. S. Kaneshima, T. Kubo, S. Yoshioka, Geophysical and mineralogical constraints on the post-spinel transformation for the Tonga slab, PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS, 10.1016/j.pepi.2012.02.009, 196, 23-31, 2012.04.
5. M. Nishi, Tomoaki KUBO, Takumi Kato, A. Tominaga, K. Funakoshi, Y. Higo, Exsolution kinetics of majoritic garnet from clinopyroxene in subducting oceanic crust, PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS, 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.07.002, 189, 1-2, 47-55, 2011.11.
6. M. Nishi, T. Kubo, T. Kato, A. Tominaga, A. Shimojuku, N. Doi, K. Funakoshi, Y. Higo, Survival of majoritic garnet in diamond by direct kimberlite ascent from deep mantle, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, doi:10.1029/2010GL042706, 2010, 2010.05.
7. T. Kubo, T. Kondo, A. Shimojuku, T. Kuwabara, T. Kato, T. Kikegawa, N. Hirao, Y. Ohishi, Time-resolved two-dimensional X-ray diffraction measurements of kinetic properties in polycrystalline high-pressure ices, J. Phys. Conf. Ser., 215, 012022, 2010, 2010.03.
8. T. Kubo, M. Kimura, T. Kato, M. Nishi, A. Tominaga, T. Kikegawa, K. Funakoshi, Plagioclase breakdown as an indicator for shock conditions of meteorites, Nature geoscience, 3, 41-45, 2010, 2010.01.
9. T. Kubo, H. Nakata, T. Kato, Effects of insoluble particles on grain growth in polycrystalline ice: Implications for rheology of ice shells of icy satellites, J. Mineral. Petrol. Sci., 104, 301-306, 2009, 2009.10.
10. T. Kubo, S. Kaneshima, Y. Torii, S. Yoshioka, Seismological and experimental constraints on metastable phase transformations and rheology of the Mariana slab, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 287, 12-23, 2009, 2009.08.
11. Akira Shimojuku ,Tomoaki Kubo, Eiji Ohtani, Tomoki Nakamura, Ryuji Okazaki, Ralf Dohmen, Sumit Chakraborty, Si and O diffusion in (Mg,Fe)2SiO4 wadsleyite and ringwoodite and its implications for the rheology of the mantle transition zone, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 284, 103-112, 2009, 2009.05.
12. T. Kubo, E. Ohtani, T. Kato, T. Kondo, T. Hosoya, A. Sano, and T. Kikegawa, Kinetics of the post-garnet transformation: Implications for density and rheology of subducting slabs, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 170, 181-192, 2008, 2008.06.
13. Kubo, T., Durham, W. B., Stern, L. A., Kirby, S. H., Grain-size sensitive creep in ice II, Science, vol. 311, 1267-1269, 2006.01.
14. Hosoya, T., Kubo, T., Ohtani, E., Sano, A., Funakoshi, K., Water controls the fields of metastable olivine in cold subducting slabs, Geophys. Res. Lett., 10.1029/2005GL023398, 32, 17, vol. 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL023398, 2005.01.
15. Kubo, T., Ohtani, E., and Funakoshi, K., Nucleation and growth kinetics of the α-β transformation in Mg2SiO4 determined by in-situ synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction, American Mineralogist, 89, 285-293, 2004.01.
16. T. Kubo, E. Ohtani, T. Kondo, T. Kato, M. Toma, T. Hosoya, A. Sano, T. Kikegawa, and T. Nagase, Metastable garnet in oceanic crust at the top of the lower mantle, Nature, vol. 420, 803-806, 2002, 2002.01.
17. T. Kubo, E. Ohtani, T. Kato, S. Urakawa, A. Suzuki, Y. Kanbe, K. Funakoshi, W. Utsumi, T. Kikegawa and K. Fujino, Mechanisms and kinetics of the postspinel transformation in Mg2SiO4, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., vol. 129, 153-171, 2002, 2002.01.
18. T. Kubo, E. Ohtani, T. Kato, S. Urakawa, A. Suzuki, Y. Kanbe, K. Funakoshi, W. Utsumi, and K. Fujino, Formation of metastable assemblages and mechanisms of the grain-size reduction in the postspinel transformation of Mg2SiO4, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 27, 807-810, 2000, 2000.01.
19. T. Kubo, E. Ohtani, T. Kato, T. Shinmei, and K. Fujino, Effects of water on the α-β transformation kinetics in San Carlos olivine, Science, vol. 25, 695-698, 1998, 1998.01.
Presentations
1. T. Kubo, H. Kojitani, S. Kaneshima, Y. Higo, Y. Tange, Kinetics of the two-stage post-spinel transformation under subduction zone conditions: Implications for mantle flow across the 660-km discontinuity, Japan Geoscience Union meeting 2018, 2018.05.
2. T. Kubo, N. Doi, M. Imamura, T. Kato, Y. Higo and Y. Tange, In-situ X-ray observations of creep behavior during the olivine-spinel transformation in fayalite, American Geophysical Union 2016 Fall Meeting, 2016.12.
3. 久保友明, 岩里拓弥, 肥後祐司, T. Kato, 上原 誠一郎, 金嶋 聰, Y. Tange, Simultaneous observations of reaction kinetics, creep behavior, and AE activities during syndeformational antigorite dehydration at high pressures, American Geophysical Union 2015 Fall Meeting, 2015.12.
4. 岩里拓弥, 久保友明, 肥後祐司, T. Kato, 金嶋 聰, 上原 誠一郎, Y. Tange, Flow behaviors and AE activities during syndeformational antigorite dehydration at high pressures, 日本地球惑星連合2015年度大会, 2015.05.
5. S. Wang, Tomoaki KUBO, J. Ning, Y. Higo, K. Funakoshi, In-situ XRD Study of the Olivine – Ringwoodite Phase Transformation Kinetics: Application for Effects of Water on Its Growth Kinetics, AGU Fall Meeting, 2012.12.
6. Tomoaki KUBO, Takumi Kato, Doi Naoko, Yuji Higo, Formation of metastable seifertite, Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2012, 2012.05.
Awards
  • Masayuki NISHI, Tomoaki KUBO and Takumi KATO (2009) Metastable transformations of eclogite to garnetite in subducting oceanic crust. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 104, 192-198.
Educational
Educational Activities
Introduction to Solid Earth sciences
Introduction to Experimental Studies in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Rock and Mineral Physics
Physics and Chemistry of Deep Earth Materials