Abstracts

Empirical evaluation of the strength and deformation characteristics of natural and synthetic gas hydrate-bearing sediments with different ranges of porosity, hydrate saturation, effective stress, and strain rate

Jun Yoneda, Kiyofumi Suzuki, Motoi Oshima, Michihiro Muraoka, Yusuke Jin

Reconsideration of the energy balance in earthquake faulting

Mitsuhiro Matsu’ura

A unique prokaryotic vertical distribution in the groundwaters of deep sedimentary geological settings in Hokkaido, Japan

Ayumi Sugiyama, Tetsuo Ibara, Kazuyo Nagaosa, Atsunao Marui, Kenji Kato

Validation of appropriate estimation criteria for the number of components for separating a polymodal grain-size distribution into lognormal distributions

Naofumi Yamaguchi

Coherent amplification of the Okhotsk high, Korean trough, and northwestern Pacific subtropical high during heavy rainfall over Japan in August 2021

Masaya Kuramochi, Hiroaki Ueda, Tomoshige Inoue, Meiji Honda, Koutarou Takaya

An introductory review of the thermal structure of subduction zones: II—numerical approach and validation

Cian R. Wilson, Peter E. van Keken

Comparison of the LBM snowdrift model output with the observation results

Seika Tanji, Masaru Inatsu, Yusuke Harada

Nationwide urban ground deformation in Japan for 15 years detected by ALOS and Sentinel-1

Yu Morishita, Ryu Sugimoto, Ryosuke Nakamura, Chiaki Tsutsumi, Ryo Natsuaki, Masanobu Shimada

Improvements in the determination of attogram-sized 231Pa in dissolved and particulate fractions of seawater via multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Pu Zhang, Yanbin Lu, Zhe Zhang, Richard Lawrence Edwards, Robert Anderson, Phoebe Lam

Ancient slabs beneath Arctic and surroundings: Izanagi, Farallon, and in-betweens

Genti Toyokuni, Dapeng Zhao