Special Program for International Students

GRADUATE COURSE IN EARTH SCIENCE
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Prof.  Hiroaki KOMURO
Department of Geoscience

Email:  komuro @riko.shimane-u.ac.jp
Phone: 81-852-32-6456
Fax:    81-852-32-6469

Areas of interest:

Structural geology and volcanology

Current projects:
Cauldron swarms along the backarc rift zone
  1. Nested cauldron and a large layered-magma chamber.
  2. Structural analysis based on gravity anomaly.
  3. Analogue model experiment on catastrophic eruption.
  4. Analogue and digital model experiments on caldera collapse.
  5. Digital model experiment on backarc rifting.
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Sample of digital simulation for deformation of a volcano
Recent Publications:
  • Komuro, H., Furuyama, K., Shichi, R., Hagi N. and Yamamoto A., 2002. Gravity anomaly on the Teragi cauldron. Bull. Volcanol. Soc. Japan, 47: 9-15. (in Japanese with English abstract).
  • Aoyama M, Komuro H, 2001. Geologic structure and stratigraphy of the Sakurae Group around Sakurae Town and Iwami Town, Shimane Prefecture. Geosci Rpt Shimane Univ, 20: 109-115. (in Japanese with English abstract).
  • Kojima T Okada M Ohira H Tokieda K Komuro H Amano K, 2001. Paleomagnetism and Fisshion-Track ages of Oki-Dogo Island in Southwest Japan. Earth Planets Space, 53: 45-54.
  • Komuro H., Shichi R. and Shitama Y., 2000. Gravity anomaly in the Unzen volcanic area, Kyushu, Japan. Geosci. Rep. Shimane Univ., 19: 97-100. (in Japanese with English abstract).
  • Komuro, H., Yamauchi, S., Shichi, R., 2000. Basement relief estimated from Bouguer gravity anomaly in and around the Shinji-Nakaumi Graben. Abstract, the 107 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, p.42. (in Japanese)
  • Komuro H, Shichi R, Nakano H, Mouri S, 1997. Basement Relief under the Daisen-Hiruzen Volcanic Chain Inferred from Gravity Anomaly. Bull Volcanol Soc Jpn, 42: 153-157. (in Japanese with English abstract).
  • Komuro H Tanigawa M, 1993. En echelon arrangement of rifting faults in analog experiments. Mem. Fac. Sci, Shimane Univ., 27, 31-43.

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