Atsushi Yamaji

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Science, Division of Earth and Planetary Science, Kyoto University

Degree: Master of Science
Doctor of Science
Doctor of Science

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8074-543X
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901091299476700
researchmap Member ID: 1000004568

External link: http://www.kueps.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~web-bs/yamaji/indexe.htm

Research Interests

Research Areas

Committee Memberships

2018 - Present

Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Structural Geology, Elsevier
2012 - Present

Monographs on Environment, Earth and Planets, Editor, TERRAPUB
May, 2024 - May, 2026

President, The Geological Society of Japan
May, 2022 - May, 2024

trustee, The Geological Society of Japan
May, 2018 - May, 2024

代議員, 日本地質学会
2016 - 2024

Honors and Recognition Committee, The Geological Society of Japan
May, 2022 - Sep, 2023

Chairperson of Award Selection Committee, The Geological Society of Japan
2020 - 2021

Honors and Recognition Committee, The Geological Society of Japan
2018 - 2020

理事, 日本地質学会
2016 - 2020

法務委員会委員長, 日本地質学会
2012 - 2018

地質学雑誌編集委員会委員長, 日本地質学会
2004 - 2016

代議員, 日本地質学会
2012 - 2015

執行理事, 日本地質学会

Major Awards

Sep, 2020

The Geological Society of Japan Prize, The Geological Society of Japan
Jul, 2017

Journal of Structural Geology Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Elsevier

YAMAJI Atsushi
Jan, 2017

Quaternary International Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Elsevier

YAMAJI Atsushi
2001

日本地質学会論文賞

Papers

168

Eocene extensional tectonics in the Amakusa region, northern Ryukyu arc

Kentaro Ushimaru, Atsushi Yamaji

Island Arc, 33(1) e12511, Jan 11, 2024
Strain and stress gradients through the backarc regions of Miocene western Japan: A new type of arc-parallel extension

Kentaro Ushimaru, Atsushi Yamaji

Journal of Structural Geology, 173 104894-104894, Jun, 2023 Peer-reviewedLast author
Not ‘erathems’ but ‘systems:’ Geologic time scales of planetary bodies

Atsushi Yamaji

32(1) 38-39, Mar, 2023 Lead authorCorresponding author
Full paleostress tensor reconstruction using quartz veins of Panasqueira Mine, central Portugal, part II: Final results

Christophe Pascal, Luís Jaques, Atsushi Yamaji

Journal of Structural Geology, 162 104688-104688, Sep, 2022 Peer-reviewedLast author
Was the final phase of the Oshima Orogeny (mid Early Cretaceous) accompanied by extensional stress in the Kitakami district?

Atsushi Yamaji, Ken-ichiro Honma, Shin Koshiya

Journal of Geological Soceity of Japan, 128 167-172, Jul, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Extensional stress accompanied by Miocene near-trench magmatism in the southern Kii Peninsula, SW Japan

Toshiki Haji, Atsushi Yamaji, Hideo Iwano, Toru Danhara, Takefumi Hirata

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 105266-105266, May, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Reconstruction of Late Hercynian Paleostress from Vein Data; Case Study of the Panasqueira Mine, Portugal

Christophe Pascal, Luís Jaques, Atsushi Yamaji

Advances in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences, 481-483, Apr 21, 2022 Peer-reviewedLast author
The Eocene Hiwadatoge Formation, SW Japan: Constraints on the timing of the denudation of the Sambagawa metamorphic rocks

楠橋直, 安藤友一, 谷健一郎, 松原尚志, 栗田裕司, 奈良正和, 山路敦

Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 128(1) 411-426, 2022 Peer-reviewedLast author
Validity of the stress inversion of orientation data from a dike swarm with a radial-parallel pattern transition

Kentaro Ushimaru, Atsushi Yamaji

Journal of Structural Geology, 154 104485-104485, Jan, 2022 Peer-reviewedLast author
Arc‐parallel extension in preparation of the rotation of southwest Japan: Tectonostratigraphy and structures of the Lower Miocene Ichishi Group

Hideki Kinoshita, Atsushi Yamaji

Island Arc, 30(1) e12418, Jul, 2021 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
Post‐rift stress history of SW Japan inferred from early to middle Miocene intrusions and meso‐scale faults in the Tajima–Myokensan area

Toshiki Haji, Atsushi Yamaji

Island Arc, 30 e12412, May 22, 2021 Peer-reviewedLast author
Styles of mesoscale brittle deformations associated with the Miocene folding of the Taishu Group, Tsushima, between the Japan Sea and East China Sea backarc basins

Atsushi Yamaji, Tatsuhiko Yanagisawa, Katsushi Sato

Island Arc, 30(1) e12392, Jan, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead author
Age and stress field of middle Miocene back-arc basalt magmatism in Northeast Japan

Hosoi, J, Yamaji, A, Iwano, H, Danhara, T, Hirata T

Island Arc, 30 e12379, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Paleostress analysis of Miocene sheet intrusions in northern Amakusa-8Shimoshima, Kyushu, Japan.

Kentaro Ushimaru, Atsushi Yamaji

Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 126(11) 631-638, Nov, 2020 Peer-reviewedLast author
The conversion tectonics from spreading to subduction: Paleostress analysis of dike swarms during the subduction initiation in the Oman Ophiolite

Susumu Umino, Yuki Kusano, Atsushi Yamaji, Takahiro Fudai, Akihiro Tamura, Shoji Arai

Geological Society of America Bulletin, 132(5-6) 1333-1343, May, 2020 Peer-reviewed
Termination of intra‐arc rifting at ca. 16 Ma in the SW Japan arc: The tectonostratigraphy of the Hokutan Group

Tsoshiki Haji, Atsushi Yamaji

Island Arc, 29 e12366, 2020 Peer-reviewedLast author
Zircon U-Pb age of a lapilli tuff bed in the lower Miocene Yoka Formation, northern Hyogo, SW Japan

Toshiki Haji, Atsushi Yamaji, Sota Niki, Takafumi Hirata

The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 125(12) 867-785, Dec 15, 2019 Peer-reviewedLast author
Stress inversion meets plasticity theory: A review of the theories of fault-slip analysis from the perspective of the deviatoric stress-strain space

Atsushi Yamaji, Katsushi Sato

Journal of Structural Geology, 125 296-310, Aug, 2019 Peer-reviewed
A middle Miocene post‐rift stress regime revealed by dikes and mesoscale faults in the Kakunodate area, NE Japan

HAJI Toshiki, HOSOI Jun, YAMAJI Atsushi

Island Arc, 28 e12304, Apr, 2019 Peer-reviewedLast author
Fission-track and U-Pb ages from the Hokutan Group, northern Hyogo Prefecture, SW Japan

HAJI Toshiki, YAMAJI Atsushi

Journal of Geological Society of Japan, 125 685-698, 2019 Peer-reviewedLast author

Misc.

規格化応力テンソルの非類似度クラス分け

山路敦, 佐藤活志

日本地球惑星科学連合2018年大会, SIT26-P02, May, 2018 Peer-reviewed
月の断層活動終了年代の推定方法の提案：一次元クレーター年代学の開発と適用例

嵩, 由芙子, 山路, 敦, 佐藤, 活志

日本地球惑星科学連合2017年大会, 2017 Peer-reviewed
西南日本の15 Maの応力場転換はなかった：但馬妙見山地域の岩脈群

羽地, 俊樹, 山路, 敦, 佐藤, 活志

日本地球惑星科学連合2017年大会, 2017 Peer-reviewed
月の断層活動終了年代の推定：一次元クレーター年代学の提案

嵩, 由芙子, 山路, 敦, 佐藤, 活志

日本地球惑星科学連合2016年大会, 2016 Peer-reviewed
小断層データを制約条件に加えたトライシアー・逆モデリングの新手法

古角, 晃洋, 山路, 敦, 佐藤, 活志

日本地球惑星科学連合2016年大会, 2016 Peer-reviewed
トライシアー・モデルによる小断層の成因推定：新潟県真人背斜を例として

古角, 晃洋, 山路, 敦, 佐藤, 活志

平成28年度石油技術協会春季講演会, 2016 Peer-reviewed
紀伊半島熊野層群中の鉱物脈に記録された古応力紀伊半島熊野層群中の鉱物脈に記録された古応力

山中, 克正, 佐藤, 活志, 山路, 敦

日本地質学会123年学術大会, 2016 Peer-reviewed
N How tightly does calcite e-twin constrain stress? (vol 72, pg 83, 2015)

Atsushi Yamaji

JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY, 80 1-1, Nov, 2015
Revisiting paleostresses in the east coast of Boso Peninsula, central Japan

Yamanaka Katsumasa, Sato Katsushi, Yamaji Atsushi

Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, 2015 554-554, 2015 Peer-reviewed
外房地域における応力史の再検討

山中, 克正, 佐藤, 活志, 山路, 敦

日本地球惑星科学連合2015年大会, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Do Miocene igneous dikes in the Tajima area, San'in region, evidence the transition of stress field associated with the cessation of the Japan Sea opening?

Haji Toshiki

Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, 2015 28-28, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Copernican tectonic activities in the northwestern Imbrium region of the Moon

Daket, Yuko, Yamaji, Atsushi, Sato, Katsushi

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, 2015 Peer-reviewed
虹の入り江および雨の海北西部における構造発達史

嵩, 由芙子, 山路, 敦, 佐藤, 活志, 春山, 純一, 諸田, 智克, 大竹, 真紀子, 松永, 恒雄

日本地球惑星科学連合2014年大会, 2014 Peer-reviewed
房総半島富津市相川地域における下部鮮新統安野層のNEバージェンス短縮

古角, 晃洋, 佐藤, 活志, 山路, 敦

日本地質学会121年学術大会, 2014 Peer-reviewed
月地殻表層の水平短縮量

山路, 敦, 嵩, 由芙子, 佐藤, 活志, 春山, 純一, 諸田, 智克, 大竹, 真紀子, 松永, 恒雄

日本地球惑星科学連合2014年大会, 2014 Peer-reviewed
外房地域に発達する南北系断層の起源：東京大学千葉演習林の地質構造

山中克正, 平田郁生, 佐藤活志, 山路敦, 徳橋秀一

日本地質学会学術大会講演要旨, 120th 285, Sep 10, 2013 Peer-reviewed
房総半島南東部の安房層群を切るトランスファー断層の発見

山中, 克正, 平田, 郁生, 佐藤, 活史, 山路, 敦, 徳橋, 秀一

平成25年度石油技術協会春季講演会, 2013 Peer-reviewed
雨の海北西部に位置するリッジの形成および再活動時期の制約

嵩, 由芙子, 山路, 敦, 佐藤, 活志, 諸田, 智克, 春山, 純一, 大竹, 真紀子, 松永, 恒雄

日本地球惑星科学連合2013年大会, 2013 Peer-reviewed
Formation and reactivation ages of a lunar mare ridge in northern Imbrium

Daket, Yuko, Yamaji, Atsushi, Sato, Katsushi, Morota, Tomokatsu, Haruyama, Junichi, Ohtake, Makiko, Matsunaga, Tsuneo

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013, 2013 Peer-reviewed
Stress tensor inversion from orientation distributions of dykes and veins with an attempt to constrain driving fluid pressure ratio

Sato, Katsushi, Yamaji, Atsushi, Tonai, Satoshi

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013, 2013 Peer-reviewed

Books and Other Publications

An introduction to tectonophysics: Theoretical aspects of structural geology

Yamaji, A

Terrapub, 2007 (ISBN: 4887041357)
理論テクトニクス入門: 構造地質学からのアプローチ

山路敦

朝倉書店,287p, 2000
庄内地域(共著)

山路敦

生出慶司・中川久夫・蟹沢聰史編『日本の地質, 第２巻, 東北地方』, 共立出版,p. 169-175, 1988

Presentations

Eocene extensional tectonics evidenced from low-angle normal faults in Amakusa, western Japan

Kentaro Ushimaru, Atsushi Yamaji

Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, Nov 19, 2023
A technique for drawing paleo-stress trajectories using the results of stress tensor inversion

Atsushi Yamaji, Ken-ichiro Honma, Shin Koshiya

Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, Nov 17, 2023
Structural difference of the Cretaceous and Eocene groups in Amakusa: Early Paleogene surface tectonics of the SW Japan–Ryukyu forearc

Kentaro Ushimaru, Atsushi Yamaji

Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, Sep 19, 2023
A historical review of paleostress analysis

Atsushi Yamaji

Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, Sep 17, 2023 Invited
Changes in the forearc stress field and backarc rifting of the southern Ryukyu arc

Makoto Otsubo, Atsushi Yamaji

Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, Sep 17, 2023
Middle Miocene folding in the Amakusa coalfield, western Japan revealed by paleomagnetic and structural data

Kentaro Ushimaru, Atsushi Yamaji, Naoto Ishikawa

May 23, 2023
中央構造線をこえて来たナップ：中新統久万層群の巨礫からの示唆

山路敦, 楠橋直, 谷健一郎

日本地質学会第129年学術大会, Sep 6, 2022
中期中新世後半の九州と西南日本の背弧における島弧方向の応力勾配

牛丸健太郎, 山路敦

日本地質学会第129年学術大会, Sep 6, 2022
北上山地北東部における大島造山末期（白亜紀中頃）の伸張応力

山路敦, 越谷信

地球惑星科学連合大会, Jun 2, 2022
放射状から平行状に遷移する岩脈群に対する応力解析の妥当性：天草の中新世岩脈群からの検討

牛丸健太郎, 山路敦

地球惑星科学連合大会, May 31, 2022
噴火はもっと起こりやすい：天草の中新世岩脈群からの示唆

山路敦, 牛丸健太郎

地球惑星科学連合大会, May 23, 2022
Determination of the six unknowns of the paleostress tensor from vein data

Pascal, C, Jaques, L, Yamaji, A

General Assembly, European Geosciences Union, May, 2022
下部中新統一志層群の層序・構造が示す transtensional テクトニクス

木下英樹, 山路敦

日本地質学会第128年学術大会, Sep 6, 2021
方解石の機械的双晶による差応力と埋没深度の推定

若森奎, 山路敦

日本地質学会第128年学術大会, Sep 6, 2021
方解石双晶の三次元方向データの応力解析：精度・分解能・古深度

山路敦, 若森奎

日本地質学会第128年学術大会, Sep 6, 2021
島弧会合部，天草地域の始新世～中新世テクトニクス（地質学会年会

牛丸健太郎, 山路敦

日本地質学会第128年学術大会, Sep 4, 2021
放射状から平行状に遷移する天草の中新世岩脈群の応力解析

牛丸健太郎, 山路敦

地球惑星科学連合大会, Jun 3, 2021
The attitudes of planar intrusions in the Amakusa area

USHIMARU Kentaro, YAMAJI Atsushi

Oct 7, 2020
Early Miocene stress determined from mesoscale faults in the Lower Miocene Ichishi Group

KINOSHITA Toshiki, YAMAJI Atsushi

Oct 7, 2020
. Full paleostress tensor determination: case of the Panasqueira Mine, Portugal

PASCAL C, JAQUES L, YAMAJI, A

European Geosciences Union, Apr, 2020

Professional Memberships

Works

多重逆解法による応力場の復元

1998

Research Projects

方解石双晶応力深度計の開発と公開

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2025

山路敦, 西川治
Secular change of crustal stress

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2019

Yamaji Atsushi
Tectonic study of the Moon by means of Kaguya data

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2013

YAMAJI Atushi
Lunar gravity and geodesy mapping by KAGUYA mission and the origin of lunar dichotomy

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2008 - 2011

SASAKI Sho, HANADA Hideo, ARAKI Hiroshi, MATSUMOTO Koji, NODA Hirotomo, KAWANO Nobuyuki, IWATA Takahiro, HARUYAMA Junichi, OTAKE Makiko, MATSUNAGA Tsuneo, NAMIKI Noriyuki, DEMURA Hirohide, YAMAGUCHI Yasushi, YAMAJI Atsushi
Development of the multiple method for paleostress analysis

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2002 - 2004

YAMAJI Atsushi
Experimental studies on coupled deformation and chemical reactions

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2000 - 2002

SHIMAMOTO Toshihiko, SHIMOBAYASHI Nobumasa, YAMAJI Atsushi, OBATA Masaaki, SHIMIZU Ichiko, TSUTSUMI Akito
Development of a new high-temperature hydrothermal gas apparatus for studying deformation, fluid-flow and grain-boundary diffusion

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1997 - 1999

SHIMAMOTO Toshihiko, OHTOMO Yukiko, TAGAMI Takahiro, YAMAJI Atsushi, UNO Hiroshi, SHIMIZU Ichiko
Paleogene extensional tectonics of the Japan arc

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1996 - 1998

YAMAJI Atsushi
Active faults and subsurface structure in Kinki Triangle Region, central Japan

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1996 - 1998

OKADA Atsumasa, TAGAMI Takahiro, YAMAJI Atsushi, TAKEMURA Keiji, UEMURA Yoshihiro, TOGO Masami
DOORPORATIVE STUDY OF LUNAR GEOLOGY AND MENERALOGY USING

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1996 - 1998

SASAKI Sho, NAKAMURA Akiko, MUKAI Tadashi, YAMAJI Atsushi, MIZUTANI Hitoshi, UI Tadahide
Fault gouge : rock magnetic and structural study

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1996 - 1997

TORII Masayuki, ISHIKAWA Naoto, WALLIS Simon R., FURUKAWA Yoshitsugu, YAMAJI Atsushi
Rifting Process of Eastern Margin of Eurasia Continent-Comparison of post-Jurassic between Sikhote Alin and Japan Islands-

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1996 - 1997

MATSUDA Takaaki, SAKHNO V.G., KULINICH R.G., YAMAJI Atsushi, SAKIYAMA Tohru, OTOFUJI Yo-ichiro
Phylogenetic Study of South American Monkeys

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1995 - 1997

SETOGUCHI Takeshi, ESCOVAR Ricardo, KOBAYASHI Shuji, TAKAI Masanaru, SHIGEHARA Noboru
Recurrence Time of Large Events on Active Faults in Korea

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1994 - 1994

OIKE Kazuo, OKURA Takahiro, KUJE Keiko, IRIZUKI Toshiaki, AKIMOTO Kazumi, YAMAJI Atsushi, SUZUKI Yasuhiro, WATANABE Mitsuhisa, OKADA Atsumasa, KIM Sung-kyun, JUN Myang-soon, JO Wha-ryong, KYUNG Jai-bok
CHARACTERISTICS OF CRETACEOUS IGNEOUS ACTIVITY IN JAPAN ARC

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1991 - 1993

KANISAWA Satoshi, TSUCHIYA Nobutaka, ISHIKAWA Ken'ichi, YOSHIDA Takeyoshi, EHIRO Masayuki, AOKI Ken'ichiro
地殻応力の長期的変化の解明
探査機を用いた月のテクトニクスの解明
島弧のテクトニクス(特に日本列島の)
Evolution of crustal stress
Tectonics of the Moon

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日本地質学会理事

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May, 2022 - May, 2024
日本地質学会各賞選考委員会委員長

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May, 2022 - May, 2023
日本地質学会法務委員会委員長

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日本地質学会, May 1, 2018
国際地学オリンピック京都府地区コーディネーター

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NPO法人地学オリンピック日本委員会, Apr 1, 2008 - Mar 31, 2016

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日本地質学会, May 1, 2010 Promotional material
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