Tatsuki Tsujimori ☃️

Tatsuki Tsujimori

Professor of Geological Sciences

Tohoku University

Tatsuki Tsujimori, professor of geological sciences at Tohoku University’s Center for Northeast Asian Studies, earned his Ph.D. at Kanazawa University in 1999. He then completed post-doc fellowships at Okayama University of Science (2000–2002) and Stanford University (2002–2006). From 2006 to 2015 he was a faculty member of Okayama University at Misasa and has been a Tohoku University faculty member since 2015.

Prof. Tsujimori’s research specialties are in the fields of petrology and tectonics processes, with a particular emphasis on HP-UHP metamorphic rocks, such as blueschists, eclogites, and jadeitites. His early research focused on the petrotectonic characterization of the Japanese Paleozoic serpentinite-matrix mélanges enclosing blocks of various HP metamorphic/metasomatic rocks. As a part of this research, he reconstructed the fossilized mantle wedge–slab interface that contained blueschist, jadeitite, and a newly discovered eclogite. Since joining Tohoku University, his research program has focused on better understanding the geodynamic and geochemical processes of Proterozoic and Phanerozoic active convergence margins at different scales from the mineral equilibrium to the plate tectonic levels. Additionally, his work seeks to link the HP-UHP metamorphism of ancient subduction zones to geophysical observations of modern analogs by evaluating hydration and dehydration from within the subduction interface, and the subsequent slab–mantle interactions.

Prof. Tsujimori was the 1st winner of the Sakuyama Award of the Geological Society of Japan in 2006 and the 25th winner of the Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences (JAMS) Award in 2021. He was also named a 2013 MSA Fellow and a 2014 GSA Fellow due to his valuable contributions to the metamorphic petrology field, and his ongoing research into lawsonite eclogites and jadeitites has had a significant influence on the geoscience community. Currently, Prof. Tsujimori is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Island Arc and sits on the editorial boards of several scientific journals (J. Metamor. Geol., PLOS ONE, Int. Geol. Rev., Island Arc, Geosci. J., Rus. Geol. Geophy., Geol. Acta, GeoGeo, and Geol. Jour.).

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(2022). In situ argon isotope analyses of chondrule-forming materials in the Allende Meteorite: a Preliminary study for 40Ar/39Ar dating based on cosmogenic 39Ar. Minerals, v. 13, no. 1, doi:10.3390/min13010031.

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(2022). Editorial: Seeing convergent margin processes through metamorphism. Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 428-429, 106842, doi:10.3389/feart.2022.989889.

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(2022). Age, petrogenesis, and tectonic implications of the late Permian magmatic rocks in the Middle Gobi volcanoplutonic Belt, Mongolia. Island Arc, v. 31, e12457, doi:10.1111/iar.12457.

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(2022). Editorial of the special issue, “Evolution and tectonic correlations of East and South Asia: A geochemical, petrological and tectonic perspective”. Lithos, v. 428-429, 106842, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106842.

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(2021). Late Paleozoic–Early Mesozoic granitoids in the Khangay–Khentey basin, Central Mongolia: Implication for the tectonic evolution of the Mongol–Okhotsk Ocean margin. Lithos, v. 404-405, 106455, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106455.

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