Last Update 01/04 2012
Research: * Establishment of broadband ocean floor seismology. * Development of instruments for ocean floor solid earth physics. * Long term seismic observation in Mariana by OBS. * Broadband ocean floor seismic observation in French Polynesia. * BBOBS array observation to investigate the stagnant slab. * The normal mantle research project by latest BBOBS. Publications: D. Suetsugu, M. Shinohara, E. Araki, T. Kanazawa, K. Suyehiro, T. Yamada, K. Nakahigashi, H. Shiobara, H. Sugioka, K. Kawai and Y. Fukao, Mantle discontinuity depths beneath west Philippine basin from receiver function analysis of deep-sea borehole and seafloor broadband waveforms, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 95, 5, 1947--1956, 2005. Tibi, R., D. A. Wiens, H. Shiobara, H. Sugioka, and P. J. Shore, Depth of the 660-km discontinuity near the Mariana slab from an array of ocean bottom seismographs, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L02313, doi:10.1029/2005GL024523, , 2006. S. H. Pozgay, D. A. Wiens, J. A. Conder, H. Shiobara, H. Sugioka, Complex mantle flow in the Mariana subduction system: evidence from shear wave splitting, Geophys. J. Int., 170, 1, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03433.x--386, 2007. Suetsugu, D., H. Shiobara, H. Sugioka, Y. Fukao, and T. Kanazawa, Topography of the mantle discontinuities beneath the South Pacific superswell as inferred from broadband waveforms on seafloor, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 160, 310--318, 2007. A. Afilhado, L. Matias, H. Shiobara, A. Hirn, L. Mendes-Victor and H. Shimamura, From unthinned continent to ocean: The deep structure of the West Iberia passive continental margin at 38°N, Tectonophysics, 458, 9--50, 2008. 塩原 肇，金沢敏彦, 海底地震計用軽量自律型センサーの開発, 地震2, 61, 3, 137--144, 2009. Shiobara, H., K. Baba, H. Utada and Y. Fukao, Ocean Bottom Array Probes Stagnant Slab Beneath the Philippine Sea, EOS (Trans. Am. Geophys. Union), 90, 9, 70--71, 2009. Tanaka, S., M. Obayashi, D. Suetsugu, H. Shiobara, H. Sugioka, J. Yoshimitsu, T. Kanazawa, Y. Fukao and G. Barruol, P-wave tomography of the mantle beneath the South Pacific Superswell revealed by joint ocean floor and islands broadband seismic experiments, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 172, 268--277, 2009. 金沢敏彦，篠原雅尚，塩原 肇, 海底地震観測の最近の進展 −海底地震観測システムと海底における自然地震観測の進展について−, 地震2, 61, S55--S68, 2009. H. Shiobara, H. Sugioka, K. Mochizuki, S. Oki, T. Kanazawa, Y. Fukao and K. Suyehiro, Double seismic zone in the North Mariana region revealed by long-term ocean bottom array observation, Geophys. J. Int., 183, 3, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04799.x--1469, 2010. T. Isse, H. Shiobara, J. P. Montagner, H. Sugioka, A. Ito, A. Shito, T. Kanazawa and K. Yoshizawa, Anisotropic structures of the upper mantle beneath the northern Philippine Sea region from Rayleigh and Love wave tomography, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 183, 1-2, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2010.04.006--43, 2010. |
