Shigenori Maruyama

PhD, Professor                                         

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

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Research interests: Geology, plate tectonics, accretionary orogens, stratigraphy of oceanic plates, mantle plumes, metamorphic petrology, geodynamics, deep Earth interior, the origin of the Earth and life.

Professor Shigenori Maruyama is a world-known and best cited expert in geology and tectonics of Japan and other Pacific-type accretionary orogens, petrology of subduction zones, the global and regional tectonic history of Eurasia, and the geological evolution of all systems of the Earth. He is the author of the model of mantle superplumes originating at the core-mantle boundary, and the author of the new concept of plume tectonics, which combines the P-wave seismic tomography, mantle petrology and world geology. Prof. Maruyama has supervised dozens of PhD and master-degree theses and led many large research projects. He is the awardee of many national and international prizes.

Prof. Maruyama is the author of Habitable Trinity, a new concept of the origin of life, which explains the importance of nutrients supplied from rocks to sustain life in addition to the presence of water and atmosphere. His concept replaces the habitable zone concept and states that water is not the only and decisive factor for the origin and development of life, which should be considered as a key indicator for studying habitable exoplanets of the Universe.

Publications 2019-2024

• Itano K., Yoshiya K., Maruyama S., Iizuka T., 2024. Detrital Monazite Evidence for Crustal Evolution of the North and South American Continents During the Boring Billion. CHEMICAL GEOLOGY 669, 122361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122361
• Matsu'ura F., Sawaki Y., Komiya T., Han J., Maruyama S., Ushikubo T., Shimizu K., Ueno Y., 2024. Oceanic and Sedimentary Microbial Sulfur Cycling Controlled by Local Organic Matter Flux During the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion in the Three Gorges Area, South China. GEOBIOLOGY 22(5), e12617. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12617
• Murata K., Ebisuzaki T., Sassa S., Takagawa T., Masuda K., Miyamoto T.,  Ohno M., Maruyama S., 2024. Submarine Landslides and Tsunami Genesis in Sagami Bay, Japan, Caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. LANDSLIDES 21(8), 1811–1827. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-024-02231-x
• Warashina T., Sato A., Hinai H., Shaikhutdinov N., Shagimardanova E., Mori H., Tamaki S., Saito M., Sanada Y., Sasaki Y., Shimada K., Dotsuta Y., Kitagaki T., Maruyama S.,... Koma Y., Kanai A., 2024. Microbiome Analysis of the Restricted Bacteria in Radioactive Element-Containing Water at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 90(4). https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02113-23
• Kurokawa M., Higashi K., Yoshida K., Sato T., Maruyama S., Mori H., Kurokawa K., 2023. Metagenomic Thermometer. DNA RESEARCH 30(6), dsad024. https://doi.org/10.1093/dnares/dsad024
• Lin Y.-C., Chung S.-L., Maruyama S., Kadarusman A., Lee H.-Y., 2023. The Ephemeral History of Earth’s Youngest Supra-Subduction Zone Type Ophiolite from Timor. COMMUNICATIONS EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT 4(1), 308. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00973-5
• Soon W., Connolly R., Connolly M., Akasofu S.-I., Baliunas S., Berglund J., Bianchini A., Briggs W.M., Butler C.J., Cionco R.G., Crok M., Elias A.G., Fedorov V.M., Gervais F., Harde H., Henry G.W., Hoyt D.V., Humlum O., Legates D.R., Lupo A.R., Maruyama S. et al., 2023. The Detection and Attribution of Northern Hemisphere Land Surface Warming (1850–2018) in Terms of Human and Natural Factors: Challenges of Inadequate Data. CLIMATE 11(9), 179. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11090179

• Savinskiy I., Safonova I., Perfilova A., Kotler P., Sato T., Maruyama Sh., 2022. A Story of Devonian Ocean Plate Stratigraphy Hosted by the Ulaanbaatar Accretionary Complex, Northern Mongolia: Implications from Geological, Structural and U-Pb Detrital Zircon Data. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES 111, 2469–2492. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-021-02150-5

• Kurokawa M., Higashi K., Yoshida K., Sato T., Maruyama Sh., Mori H., Kurokawa K., 2022. Metagenomic Thermometer. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.14.499854
• Murata K., Sassa Sh., Takagawa T., Ebisuzaki T., Maruyama Sh., 2021. Pre- and Post-Tsunami Depth Changes of Submarine Topography for the Analysis of Submarine Landslide-Induced Tsunami: Proposal of Digitization Method and Application to the Case of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake Tsunamis. ASME 2021 40th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2021-63096
• Sawada H., Sawaki Y., Sakata S., Ishikawa A., Muteta B., Isozaki Y., Maruyama S., 2021. New geochronological constraints on the middle Archean Shurugwi greenstone belt toward an understanding of the crustal evolution of the Zimbabwe Craton. JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES 173, 104021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.104021
• Sawada H., Mugandani E.T., Sato T., Sawaki Y., Sakata S., Isozaki Y., Maruyama S., 2019. Age constraints on the Palaeoproterozoic Lomagundi–Jatuli Event in Zimbabwe: Zircon geochronology of the Magondi Supergroup. TERRA NOVA. 31(5), 438–444. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12407
• Maruyama S., Kurokawa K., Ebisuzaki T., Sawaki Y., Suda K., Santosh M., 2019. Nine requirements for the origin of Earth's life: Not at the hydrothermal vent, but in a nuclear geyser system. GEOSCIENCE FRONTIERS 10(4), 1337–1357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2018.09.011