YOKOKAWA Miwa

Name	YOKOKAWA Miwa
Affiliation	Osaka Institute of Technology
Section	Faculty of Information Science and Technology　Department of Information Networks
Degree	Master of Science(University of Tsukuba), Doctor of Science(Kyushu University)

Research Interests

Sedimentary processes , Flume expenriments

Research Areas

Geography / Geography /
Earth and planetary science / Geology /
Earth and planetary science / Stratigraphy/Paleontology /

Academic & Professional Experience

1991

2001

Osaka University, Research Assistant

1997

ODP Leg172 Scientist

1999

2000

Visiting scientist, Massachusetts Institute

of Technology

Misc

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Changes in grain size and magnetic fabric at Blake-Bahama Outer Ridge during the late Pleistocene (marine isofope stages 8-10)

Marine Geology 189(1-2), 123-144 2002

Grain fabric in cross laminated deposits conformably superimposed on parallel laminae : Flume experiments and application to geologic records

Journal of Geological Society of Japan 108(7), 415-420 2002

Angles of a slope of dry glass spheres : A piling box experiment[共著]

Transactions, Japanese Geomorphological Union 22(2) 203-215 2001

Sedimentary structures of contourites and turbidites observed by X-radiographic prints : samples from Blake-Bahama Outer Ridge and Sohm Abyssal Plain

(Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 172[online] : Keigwin, L.D., et al., eds.)Available from WWW : <http : //www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/172_SR/chap_07/chap_07.htm> 2001

Grain size distribution of sediment carried by single transportation modes in an experimental microdelta system. (共著)

Sedimentary Geology 102(3/4) 297-304 1996

Books etc

Theoretical study on breaking of waves on antidunes(共著)

(Particulate Gravity currents : McCaffrey, W.D. et al., eds.)Special Publication International Association of Sedimentologists 2001

Climbing ripples recording the change of tidal current condition in the middle Pleistocene Shimosa Group, Japan(共著)

(Tidal Signature in Modern and Ancient Sediments : Flemming, F and Bartholoma, A., eds.)Special. Publication International Association of Sedimentologists 1995

Tidal influence on foreshore deposits, Pacific coast of Japan(共著)

(Clastic tidal sedimentology : Smith, D. G. et al. eds. )Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists 1991

Research Grants & Projects

Experimental study for sand particle movement on migrating bedforms and their relationship to grain fabric

Experimental study on the distribution of bedform-size in transition between current ripples and dunes

Depositional processes of fine-grained sediments under deep water currents

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

Project Year: 2001

Lake basin morphology analyzed by use of DEM

Project Year: 2002