Our Graduate School Master’s Student Won the Student Excellence Presentation Award

At the 131st Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, held at Yamagata University from September 8 to 10, 2024, Ryu Nakano, a first-year master’s student in the Department of Earth Resource Science at the Graduate School of International Resource Sciences, received the Student Excellence Presentation Award.

Nakano’s presentation was titled “Growth history of the Tsunatori Unit in the Nedamo Belt, NE Japan, and Early to Middle Paleozoic igneous activities in the eastern Asian continental margin, based on the detrital zircon geochemistry”. The research involved field surveys and geochemical analysis of rock samples from a 400-million-year-old geological belt distributed in Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, aiming to reconstruct the formation history of the geological belt and the magmatic activity history of the Asian region at that time.

Future developments in Nakano’s research are highly anticipated.