Kawai Kenji
Associate Professor
Department of Earth and Planetary Environmental Science (UG)
University of Tokyo
Japan
Biography
KAWAI Kenji is currently working as Associate Professor under Department of Earth and Planetary Environmental Science (UG), Department of Earth and Planetary Physics (UG), Department of Earth and Planetary Science (GR), Graduate School of Science
Research Interest
Global seismology, Study of Earth's deep interior Waveform inversion, Earth's evolution
Publications
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Ishikawa, A., and K. Kawai, Ultrapotassic magma from the deep mantle, Leucite Hills Lamproite, Wyoming USA, J. Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), 124, 515-523, 2015.
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Kawai, K., H. Sakuma, I. Katayama, and K. Tamura, Frictional characteristics of single and polycrystalline muscovite and influence of fluid chemistry, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 120, 6209-6218, doi:10.1002/2015JB012286, 2015.
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Katayama, I., T. Kubo, H. Sakuma and K. Kawai, Can clay minerals account for the non-asperity on the subducting plate interface? Prog. Earth Planet. Sci., 2:30 (8pp) DOI 10.1186/s40645-015-0063-4, 2015.
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Ichikawa, H., S. Yamamoto, K. Kawai, and M. Kameyama, Estimate of subduction rate of island arcs to the deep mantle, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 5447–5460, doi:10.1002/2016JB013119, 2016.
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Borgeaud, A.F.E.*, K. Konishi, K. Kawai, and R.J. Geller, Finite frequency effects on apparent S-wave splitting in the D" layer: comparison between ray theory and full-wave synthetics, Geophys. J. Int., 207, 12-28, 2016.