NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH 30(4) 3017-3034 2021年8月
The demand for groundwater resources has increased owing to global developments of urbanization, industry, and agriculture. There is thus a need for advanced geophysical techniques that can be used for accurate surveying of groundwater resources. ...
Vitor Ribeiro de Sa   Katsuaki Koike   Tada-nori Goto   Tatsuo Nozaki   Yutaro Takaya   Toru Yamasaki   
ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS 135 2021年8月
Seafloor hydrothermal deposits in the Okinawa Trough have been regarded as a modern analog of kuroko-type volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits on land. VMS deposit is one of the primary producers of base metals (e.g. Cu, Pb, Zn) and preciou...
NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH 30(4) 2875-2887 2021年8月
Seafloor massive sulfide (SMS) deposits are typical of submarine mineral resources and generally rich in base metals (Cu, Pb, Zn); however, their distribution, configuration, and formation mechanism, especially sub-seafloor mineralization, remain ...
Although solar activity may significantly impact the global environment and socioeconomic systems, the mechanisms for solar eruptions and the subsequent processes have not yet been fully understood. Thus, modern society supported by advanced infor...
Jin Wu   Tada-nori Goto   Katsuaki Koike   
ENGINEERING GEOLOGY 289 2021年8月
Although the permeability of fractured rock mass is a fundamentally important property for the safe construction of civil and mining engineering structures such as tunnels, in situ characterization of permeability without resorting to hydraulic te...