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KOJIMA Satoru
Title Professor
Department Department of Civil Engineering
Course Disaster Reduction Studies Course

Research fields

1) Landslide and Landslide-Dammed Lake
Researches on geologic chracterization of large landslide (sensu lato), their triggers (earthquake and heavy rainfall), and sediments accumlated in landslide-dammed lakes. The fields are in Gifu Prefecture (Neo-Shiratani, Nannotani, etc.), Mie Prefecture (Ikenotani, Sono, Tsuenomine, etc.).

2) Gravitational Slope Deformation
Gravitational slope deformations such as double ridges and uphill-facing scarps were considered as periglacial landforms, because they are developed in high mountain regions. The landforms, however, actually form during the processes of mountain collapse by gravity. The study of gravitational slope deformation could predict the place and timing of deep-seated large landslides.

3) Development History of the Circum-Pacific and Himalaya Orogenic Belts
The circum-Pacific orogenic belt is the largest accretion-type orogenic belt, and the Himalaya orogenic belt is the largest collision-type orogenic belt in the world. I studied these two types orogenic belts; the former in the Japanese Islands and Far East Russia, and the latter in the Ladakh Himalaya in India.

Double ridge north of Kitadake in Japan Southern Alps Field survey in Ladakh Himalaya, India

Research Keywords

Geology, Landslide, Gravitational Slope Deformation, Accretionary Complex

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