Satoru Yamamoto

Dr. Satoru Yamamoto

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Academic Career Length

25Years (2002-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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4 July 2010 in Nature Geoscience
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SYSatoru Yamamoto
Satoru Yamamoto
RNRyosuke Nakamura
Ryosuke Nakamura
TMTsuneo Matsunaga
Tsuneo Matsunaga
YOYoshiko Ogawa
Yoshiko Ogawa
YIYoshiaki Ishihara
Yoshiaki Ishihara
JHJunichi Haruyama
Junichi Haruyama

6 July 2012 in Geophysical Research Letters
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SYSatoru Yamamoto
Satoru Yamamoto
RNR. Nakamura
R. Nakamura
TMTsuneo Matsunaga
Tsuneo Matsunaga
YOY. Ogawa
Y. Ogawa
YIY. Ishihara
Y. Ishihara
JHJ. Haruyama
J. Haruyama
We present a new global survey of the purest anorthosite (PAN) rock using the Spectral Profiler onboard Kaguya. We found that PAN rocks are widely distributed over the Moon, including the Feldspathic Highland Terrain and the south and north polar regions. All PAN sites are associated with huge impact structures with diameters larger than 100 km. Based on the global distributions of PAN and olivine‐rich sites, we propose the existence of a massive PAN layer with a thickness of ∼50 km below an uppermost mafic‐rich mixed layer with a thickness of ∼10 km. Below the PAN layer, a lower crustal layer with olivine‐rich materials may be present on the nearside, but not on the far side of the Moon. The existence of a PAN layer with a thickness of ∼50 km suggests an Al2O3 abundance of 33 to 34 wt.% in the lunar crust, which is higher than previous estimates of <32 wt.%. Our data indicate the massive production event of PAN during the early stage of the formation of the Moon, supporting the lunar magma ocean scenario.

29 April 2012 in Nature Geoscience
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MOMakiko Ohtake
Makiko Ohtake
HTHiroshi Takeda
Hiroshi Takeda
TMTsuneo Matsunaga
Tsuneo Matsunaga
YYYasuhiro Yokota
Yasuhiro Yokota
JHJunichi Haruyama
Junichi Haruyama
PLPaul G. Lucey
Paul G. Lucey

1 October 2011 in Icarus
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YYYasuhiro Yokota
Yasuhiro Yokota
TMTsuneo Matsunaga
Tsuneo Matsunaga
MOMakiko Ohtake
Makiko Ohtake
JHJunichi Haruyama
Junichi Haruyama
RNRyosuke Nakamura
Ryosuke Nakamura
HMHitoshi Mizutani
Hitoshi Mizutani

1 July 2010 in Space Science Reviews
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MOMakiko Ohtake
Makiko Ohtake
TMTsuneo Matsunaga
Tsuneo Matsunaga
YYYasuhiro Yokota
Yasuhiro Yokota
SYSatoru Yamamoto
Satoru Yamamoto
YOYoshiko Ogawa
Yoshiko Ogawa
HOHisashi Otake
Hisashi Otake

1 March 2012 in Icarus
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SYSatoru Yamamoto
Satoru Yamamoto
RNRyosuke Nakamura
Ryosuke Nakamura
TMTsuneo Matsunaga
Tsuneo Matsunaga
YOYoshiko Ogawa
Yoshiko Ogawa
YIYoshiaki Ishihara
Yoshiaki Ishihara
JHJunichi Haruyama
Junichi Haruyama