yoshida

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1961.3 Graduated from the Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University (B.Sc.)

1964.3 Finished the Master-course of the same department, Hokkaido University (M.Sc.)

1968.3 Finished the Doctoral course of the same department, Hokkaido University

1977.12 Obtained D. Sc. from the Hokkaido University, Japan

Research Interests

Tectonics of Gondwanaland, Antarctica, and Himalaya

1968 Research mainly on the tectonics and petrology of Tanzawa Mountains, Central Japan (composed of Tertiary green schists intruded by a tonalitic mass), as the graduate course student, Hokkaido University.

1968-1970 Research on the tectonics and petrology of the Lutzow-Holm Bay area, East Antarctica, as the member of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition.

1970-present Research mainly on the tectonics and petrology of metamorphic rocks of the Ryoke Metamorphic Belt of Japan, Antarctica, and Gondwanaland areas, as a staff of the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Science, Osaka City University (by 2001) and as the President of Gondwana Institute for Geology and Environment.

2003.10-present: Research on the tectonics as well as natural hazard of Nepal Himalaya, as the Professor of the Tribhuvan University.

Record of Leadership of International Scientific Project

1990-1995, Convenor, Japanese Working Group IGCP-288, Gondwanaland Sutures and Fold Belts.

1991-1995, Project leader, Japan-India joint research on Geologic Comparison between India and Antarctica.

1993-1995, Project co-leader, Japan-Russia Joint Research on Granulites of South India.

1992-1993, Project leader, Proterozoic Mobile Belts in Gondwanaland, Grant-in-Aid, International Research of Japan Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. (MONBUSHO)

1995-1999, Project chief co-leader, UNESCO-IUGS-IGCP No. 368, Proterozoic Events in East Gondwana.

1996-1997, Project leader, Tectonics of Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt of India: Research on Proterozoic Events in East Gondwana. (Grant-in-Aid, MONBUSHO)

1993-1997, Project co-leader, Joint Research Project with the Geological Survey of India, on the Precambrian geology of southern and eastern India.

1998-2000, Project leader, Tectonics of the Central Indian Tectonic Zone: Research on Proterozoic Events in East Gondwana (IGCP-368). (Grant-in-Aid, MONBUSHO)

1999-2000, Project co-organizer, Japan-India Joint Research Program, Crustal Evolution of the Eastern and Central Indian Craton and surrounding Mobile Belts, India.

Membership

Permanent member of Geological Societies of Nepal, India, and Sri Lanka.

1962- present Member of the Geological Society of Japan, Member of the Japanese Assoc. Min.

Petrol. Econ. Geol. Member of the Japanese Geologists for Collaborative Research

1972-Present: Member, The Hokkaido Nature Conservation Society

1973-1998 Member of the Japan Committee of Antarctic Geology

1989-present Life Member, Geological Society of Sri Lanka

1990-present Life Member, Geological Society of India

1991-2001 Member of the Committee, International Joint Research Program, Japan Academy of Science

1992-present President, Gondwana Research Group

1995-present Emeritus President, International Association for Gondwana Research

2005-present: Life member, Nepal Geological Society

Publications

Author of about 200 publications including editorship of about 20 books and special volumes of journals

Some important publications are listed below.

Yoshida, M., Ando, H., Omoto, K., Naruse, R., and Ageta, Y. (1971) Discovery of meteorites near Yamato Mountains, East Antarctica. Antarctic Record, 39, 62-65.
Yoshida, M. and Ando, H. (1971) Geological survey in the vicinity of Lutzow-Holm Bay and the Yamato Mountains, East Antarctica. Antarctic Rec., 39, 46-54.
Yoshida, M. (1972) On the metamorphic history of the Tanzawa Mountainland, Central Japan. J. Geosci., Osaka City Univ., 15, 113-142.
Yoshida, M., (1973) Mylonitic rocks along the Median Tectonic Line, Kinki (In Japanese). In Sugiyama, R. (ed), Median Tectonic Line, Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 149‐178．
Yoshida, M. (1976) Microstructures of mylonitic rocks (in Japanese). MTL (Newsletter, Joint Project on the Formative Processes of the Median Tectonic Line), No. 1, 69‐79．
Yoshida, M., Yoshida, Y., Ando, H., Ishikawa, T. and Tatsumi, T. (1976) Antarctic Geological Map Ser., Sheet 9, Skallen 1:25,000, with an explanatory text, 16 pages with 2 plates. National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo.
Yoshida, M. (1978) Tectonics and petrology of charnockites around Lutzow-Holmbukta, East Antarctica. J. Geosci., Osaka City Univ., 21, 65-152.
Yoshida, M. (1979) Mylonitic rocks along the Median Tectonic Line, Japan. 14^th Circum Pacific Scientific Congress, Khabarovsk. Abstracts Section B IV 122-124.
Yoshida, M. (1979) Metamorphic conditions of the polymetamorphic Lutzow-Holmbukta region, East Antarctica. J. Geosci., Osaka City Univ., 22, 97-140.
Yoshida, M. (1980) Classification of mylonitic rocks. 26^th IGC, Paris. Abstracts, 411.
Yoshida, M. and Kizaki, K. (1983) Tectonic situation of Lutzow-Holm Bay in East Antarctica and its significance in Gondwanaland. In R. Oliver et al. (eds), Antarctic Earth Sciences, Austral. Acad. Sci., Canberra, 36-39.
Yoshida, M. (1988) A reconnaissance geological survey of Sri Lanka and India 1985-1986, for comparing geology in India, Sri Lanka and Antarctica. J. Geosci., Osaka City Univ. 31, 1-17.
Yoshida, M., Hunaki, M. and Vitanage, P.W. (1992) Proterozoic to Mesozoic East Gondwana: the juxtaposition of India-Sri Lanka-Antarctica. Tectonics, 11, 381-391.
Yoshida, M. and Santosh, M. (1994) A tectonic perspective of incipient charnockites in East Gondwana. In: Reith, M. and Hoernes, S. (eds), Tectonic, metamorphic and isotopic evolution of deep crustal rocks, with special emphasis on Sri Lanka. Sp. Issue, Precambrian Res. 66. 379-392.
Yoshida, M. (1995) A suspect Pan-African suture in the Lutzow-Holm Bay -Sri Lanka sector of East Gondwana. Gondwana News Letter, 5, In J. African Earth Sci. 20-3/4, vii-ix.
Yoshida, M. and Santosh, M. (eds) (1995) India and Antarctica during the Precambrian, Geol. Soc. India. No.34. Geol. Soc. India, Bangalore, 412 pages.
Yoshida, M. (1995) Assembly of East Gondwana during Precambrian and its rejuvenation during the Pan-African period. Mem. 34, Geol. Soc. India, 25-45.
Yoshida, M., Santosh, M. and Arima, M. (eds) (1996) Precambrian India within East Gondwana.　Sp. Issue., J. Southeast Asian Earth Sci., v.14, No. 3-4. Pergamon/Elsevier, Oxford, 329 pages.
Yoshida, M., Bindu, S., Kagami, H., Rajesham, T., Santosh, M. & Shirahata, H.,(1996) Geochronologic constraints of granulite terrains of South India and its implications to the Precambrian Gondwana assembly. J. SE Asian Earth Sci., 14, 137-147.
Yoshida, M., Muhongo, S., Rambeloson, R. and Janardhan, A.S. (eds)（1999）Madagascar Within Gondwanaland, Gndwana Research vol. 2, no. 3, 333-502.
Yoshida, M., Rajesh, H.M. and Santosh, M.（1999） Juxtaposition of India and Madagascar: A perspective. Gondwana Res.，2, 449‐462．
Yoshida, M. and Arima, M. (2000) Assembly and breakup of supercontinent and global environmental change (IGCP-368). In: Tuchi, R. (ed), Earth's Environment and the IGCP Activities for the 21st Century, Japan Contribution to the IGCP, 2000. Japan National Committee for IGCP, Shizuoka, 1-8.
Yoshida, M., Jacobs, J., Santosh, M. and Rajesh, H.M. (2000) A suspect Pan-African suture in East Gondwana: A critical review from Madagascar, South India, Sri Lanka and East Antarctica. Keynote talk, General Symposium 9-7, 31^st IGC, Rio de Janeiro.
Yoshida, M., Windley, B.F.and Dasgupta (eds) (2003) Proterozoic East Gondwana: Supercontinent Assembly and Break-up. Geol. Soc., London, Sp. Pub. 206, 480 pages.
Yoshida, M., Jacobs, J., Santosh, M. and Rajesh, H.M. (2003) Role of Pan-African events in the Circum-East Antarctic Orogen of East Gondwana: a critical overview. In: Yoshida, M., Windley, B.F.and Dasgupta, S. (eds), Proterozoic East Gondwana: Supercontinent Assembly and Break-up, Geol. Soc., London, Special Pub. No. 206, 57-75.
Yoshida, M., Kampunzu, A.B., Li, Z.X. and Watanabe, T. (2003): Assembly and Breakup of Rodinia and Gondwana. Gondwana Research Sp. Issue, 6, 137-270.
Yoshida, M., 2003, Episodes of the First Discovery of Yamato Meteorites (Antarctica), Parts 1 & 2. (in Japanese). Chigaku Kyouiku to Kagaku Undo (Education of Geoscience and its Social Impact), 42, 54-62 & 43, 46-54.