The oceanic area is where the oceanic plate forms at ridge, then grows, and subducts at trench. Unraveling structures under the oceanic area covering a vast area of the Earth surface is a key to know structure and evolution of the whole Earth. My research interest is to reveal interior structures, especially of electrical conductivity, and crustal and mantle dynamics at mid-ocean and back-arc spreading ridges, subduction zones, and others in the oceanic area, based on data obtained in sea-going experiments. In addition, to look at new sides of the Earth, I have worked on development of new data analysis methods.
Main Research Themes:
Revealing electrical conductivity structures of oceanic crust and mantle at mid-ocean and back-arc ridges and subduction zones from observational data.
Revealing Earth interior’s structure and Earth dynamics based on electrical conductivity structures.
Development of new methods of data analysis.
Recent Publications:
Matsuno, T., D. Suetsugu, K. Baba, N. Tada, H. Shimizu, H. Shiobara, T. Isse, H. Sugioka, A. Ito, M. Obayashi, and H. Utada (2017), Mantle transition zone beneath a normal seafloor in the northwestern Pacific: Electrical conductivity, seismic thickness, and water content, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 462, 189-198, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.12.045.
Matsuno, T., Y. Nogi, and N. Seama (2015), Electrical resistivity structure under the western Cosmonauts Sea at the continental margin of East Antarctica inferred via a marine magnetotelluric experiment, Polar Science, 9, 221-234, doi: 10.1016/j.polar.2015.03.001.
Matsuno, T., M. Kimura, and N. Seama (2015), Electrical resistivity structure of the Snail site at the southern Mariana Trough spreading center, in J. Ishibashi et al. (eds.), Subseafloor Biosphere Linked to Global Hydrothermal Systems; TAIGA Concept, Springer Japan, Tokyo, 241-251.
Matsuno, T., A. D. Chave, A. G. Jones, M. R. Muller, and R. L. Evans (2014), Robust magnetotelluric inversion, Geophys. J. Int., 196, 1365-1374, doi:10.1093/gji/ggt484.
Matsuno, T., R. L. Evans, N. Seama, and A. D. Chave (2012), Electromagnetic constraints on a melt region beneath the central Mariana back-arc spreading ridge, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 13, Q10017, doi:10.1029/2012GC004326.
Matsuno, T., N. Seama, R. L. Evans, A. D. Chave, K. Baba, A. White, T. Goto, G. Heinson, G, Boren, A. Yoneda, and H. Utada (2010), Upper mantle electrical resistivity structure beneath the central Mariana subduction system, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 11, Q09003, doi:10.1029/2010GC003101.