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The sulfur 4-isotope study for environment of the early Earth

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20H01999
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 17040:Solid earth sciences-related
Research InstitutionJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Principal Investigator

USHIKUBO Takayuki  国立研究開発法人海洋研究開発機構, 超先鋭研究開発部門(高知コア研究所), 主任研究員 (10722837)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 小宮 剛  東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (30361786)
清水 健二  国立研究開発法人海洋研究開発機構, 超先鋭研究開発部門(高知コア研究所), 主任研究員 (30420491)
上野 雄一郎  東京工業大学, 理学院, 教授 (90422542)
Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥17,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥7,540,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,740,000)
Keywords硫黄同位体 / 硫化鉱物 / 太古代 / 二次イオン質量分析計 / SIMS / MIF / 海底熱水鉱床
Outline of Research at the Start

形成されたばかりの頃の地球の環境、生命誕生当時の地球の環境はどの様であったか? 可能な限り初期の地球の様子を正確に把握する事は、その後の地球表層環境の進化、地球に誕生した生物と周囲の環境との相互作用の歴史を理解する上で重要である。
本研究では、古い地質試料(岩石)の中の小さな鉱物・小さな領域に保存されている当時の硫黄同位体比の情報を調べることで、大気組成の変化や生命活動の様子を約40億年前まで遡って明らかにする事を目指している。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We developed an in-situ sulfur 4-isotope analysis technique by the secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) at Kochi Institute, JAMSTEC, and we applied this technique to the studies of Archean geology, economic geology, and other geosciences. We recognized a characteristic sulfur isotope anomaly in the ca. 3.9 Ga sedimentary rock samples. This implies that the terrestrial atmospheric composition at ca. 3.9 Ga was slightly different from that of later Archean atmosphere. We also recognized large negative d34S anomaly in framboidal pyrite in the seafloor hydrothermal deposits. This indicates that tiny pyrite grains formed by microbial sulfate reduction plays an important role at the initial stage of subseafloor sulfide mineralization.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

日本ではこれまでにも太古代や初期地球に関する優れた地質学的研究が行われてきたが、表層環境を推定する上で重要な硫黄の4同位体比組成の微小領域分析が出来る研究機関が無かった。本研究課題で微小領域分析技法を立ち上げて太古代試料の分析を行うことで、約39億年前の地球大気組成がそれ以降の大気組成と異なる特徴を持つことを初めて示すことが出来た。また、開発した技術を資源研究や火山研究にも応用することで、鉱床の成長過程や火山のマグマ形成に寄与した流体の特徴を調べることが出来ることを示した。今後、微小領域の硫黄同位体比研究が資源開発や火山防災の研究にも役立つことが期待される。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Annual Research Report
  • 2021 Annual Research Report
  • 2020 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (25 results)

All 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (4 results) Journal Article (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (18 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 8 results,  Invited: 1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] CNRS/Universite d'Olreans(フランス)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] 浙江大学/南京大学(中国)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Pennsylvania State University(米国)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Universite Clermont Auvergne(フランス)

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] In situ sulfur isotope analysis of pyrite from the Ezuri Kuroko‐type volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, northeastern Japan: Contribution of microbial sulfate reduction to initial sulfide mineralization2024

    • Author(s)
      Nozaki Tatsuo、Nagase Toshiro、Ushikubo Takayuki、Shimizu Kenji、Komuro Kosei
    • Journal Title

      Resource Geology

      Volume: 74 Issue: 1

    • DOI

      10.1111/rge.12328

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Sulfur Isotope and Trace Element Systematics in Arc Magmas: Seeing through the Degassing via a Melt Inclusion Study of Kyushu Island Volcanoes, Japan2022

    • Author(s)
      Kawaguchi Masataka、Koga Kenneth T、Rose-Koga Estelle F、Shimizu Kenji、Ushikubo Takayuki、Yoshiasa Akira
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Petrology

      Volume: 63 Issue: 7 Pages: 1-31

    • DOI

      10.1093/petrology/egac061

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Microbial sulfate reduction plays an important role at the initial stage of subseafloor sulfide mineralization2020

    • Author(s)
      Nozaki Tatsuo、Nagase Toshiro、Ushikubo Takayuki、Shimizu Kenji、Ishibashi Jun-ichiro、and the D/V Chikyu Expedition 909 Scientists
    • Journal Title

      Geology

      Volume: 49 Issue: 2 Pages: 222-227

    • DOI

      10.1130/g47943.1

    • NAID

      120007017117

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Tracing the subducting Pacific slab with hydrogen and sulfur isotopic ratios in olivine-hosted melt inclusions2024

    • Author(s)
      Takeshi Kuritani, Kenji Shimizu, Takayuki Ushikubo, Qun-Ke Xia, Jia Liu, Mitsuhiro Nakagawa, Hajime Taniuchi, Eiichi Sato, Nobuo Doi
    • Organizer
      JpGU 2024
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] In-situ quadruple sulfur isotope analysis from the Nulliak supracrustal rocks, Labrador, Canada: Atmospheric chemistry in the early Earth2024

    • Author(s)
      Ryota Mihori, Takayuki Ushikubo, Kenji Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Komiya
    • Organizer
      JpGU 2024
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Nature of slab-fluid sulfur indicated from sulfur isotope and trace element systematics of olivine-hosted melt inclusions from Kyushu Island volcanoes, Japan2023

    • Author(s)
      M. Kawaguchi, K. T. Koga, E. F. Rose-Koga, K. Shimizu, T. Ushikubo, A. Yoshiasa
    • Organizer
      JpGU 2023
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Oxygen and silicon isotope systematics of zircons from Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc and the Izu collision zone, a modern analogue of the early evolved crust formation2023

    • Author(s)
      T. Ushikubo, K. Tani
    • Organizer
      6th International Archean Symposium
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] カナダ、ラブラドルのヌリアック表成岩(約39億年前)の硫化鉱物に対する局所4種硫黄同位体分析:初期地球の大気化学と硫黄循環2023

    • Author(s)
      三堀遼太、牛久保孝行、清水健二、澤木祐介、小宮剛
    • Organizer
      日本地質学会
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Oxygen, not sulfate, as the driver of the Ediacaran Shuram excursion2022

    • Author(s)
      F. Matsu’ura, Y. Sawaki, T. Komiya, T. Ushikubo, K. Shimizu, Y. Ueno
    • Organizer
      JpGU 2022
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Combination of in-situ sulfur isotope and trace element analysis of pyrites: Quantitative estimate of chemistry and redox condition of seawater in the Ediacaran2022

    • Author(s)
      T. Komiya, K. Namba, Y. Sawaki, T. Hirata, T. Ushikubo, K. Shimizu
    • Organizer
      JpGU 2022
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Large contribution of oxygen to organic matter degradation during the Ediacaran Shuram excursion2022

    • Author(s)
      F. Matsu’ura, Y. Sawaki, T. Komiya, T. Ushikubo, K. Shimizu, Y. Ueno
    • Organizer
      Goldschmidt 2022
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 硫化鉱物の局所イオウ同位体と微量元素分析による海洋中の硫酸と微量金属元素濃度の定量法の開発とエディアカラ紀海洋への応用2022

    • Author(s)
      小宮 剛、難波 恒太、澤木 祐介、牛久保 孝行、清水 健二
    • Organizer
      日本地質学会
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] SIMSを用いた硫化鉱物の局所硫黄2~4同位体比分析高精度化への取り組み2022

    • Author(s)
      牛久保 孝行、清水 健二、野崎 達生、鳥本 淳司、長瀬 敏郎、久保田 勇祐、中川 麻悠子、上野 雄一郎
    • Organizer
      日本地球化学会
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] かんらん石メルト包有物の硫黄同位体および微量元素システマティクスで探る九州地方島弧マグマの硫黄の起源2022

    • Author(s)
      川口 允孝、K. T. Koga、E. F. Rose-Koga、清水 健二、牛久保 孝行、吉朝 朗
    • Organizer
      国際火山噴火史情報研究集会
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 神鍋火山スコリア中のかんらん石のメルト包有物の研究2022

    • Author(s)
      金山 壮一朗、柵山 徹也、清水 健二、牛久保 孝行
    • Organizer
      日本火山学会
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] In Situ Sulfur Isotope Analysis of Sulfide in >3.95 Ga Metasedimentary Rocks: Sulfur Cycling and Microbial Activity in the Eoarchean2022

    • Author(s)
      R. Mihori, Y. Sawaki, M. Kayama, T. Ushikubo, K. Shimizu, T. Komiya
    • Organizer
      Precambrian World 2023
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Highly enriched and depleted melt sources in mantle plumes recorded in olivine-hosted melt inclusions in Raivavae ocean island basalts2021

    • Author(s)
      T. Hanyu, K. Shimizu, T. Ushikubo, J.-I. Kimura, Q. Chang, M. Hamada
    • Organizer
      Goldschmidt 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Extreme sulfur isotope fractionation in the seafloor hydrothermal deposit of the Okinawa Trough revealed by SIMS in-situ analysis2020

    • Author(s)
      T. Nozaki, T. Nagase, T. Ushikubo, K. Shimizu, J.-I. Ishibashi, CK16-05 cruise members
    • Organizer
      Goldschmidt 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 高知コア研における硫黄2同位体及び4同位体比局所分析の取り組み2020

    • Author(s)
      牛久保 孝行、清水 健二、野崎 達生、長瀬 敏郎
    • Organizer
      JpGU 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] SIMS分析により解明された沖縄トラフ海底熱水鉱床の極端な硫黄同位体分別2020

    • Author(s)
      野崎 達生、長瀬 敏郎、牛久保 孝行、清水 健二、石橋 純一郎、CK16-05航海乗船者一同
    • Organizer
      JpGU 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 海底下の硫化物鉱床初期形成過程は微生物活動が促進する2020

    • Author(s)
      野崎 達生、長瀬 敏郎、牛久保 孝行、清水 健二、石橋 純一郎、CK16-05航海乗船研究者
    • Organizer
      海と地球のシンポジウム2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report

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