Member

UNO, Masaoki

Associate Professor
Solid Earth Science Group

Office: Bldg. 1 Dept. Science-745
E-mail:
HP: http://uno-lab.vercel.app

Research Field

Petrology, Geochemistry, Geofluids sciences

Current Research

Our study aims to understand and predict the dynamic evolution of fluid-rock interactions, ranging in seismogenic zones, mineral carbonation, and supercritical geothermal reservoirs.
Our approach ranges for field surveys of high-pressure or high-temperature metamorphic belts, hydrothermal flow through experiments producing mineral carbonation and silica veins, geochemical machine-learning to predict protolith composition and mass transfer history of altered/metamorphosed rocks, and petrological analyses of super hot in-situ reacting granite to understand the formation of supercritical geothermal reservoirs.

Representative Publications

1. Uno, M., Koyanagawa, K., Kasahara, H., Okamoto, A., Tsuchiya, N., 2022. Volatile-consuming reactions fracture rocks and self-accelerate fluid flow in the lithosphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, e2110776118.
2. Uno, M., Okamoto, A., Akatsuka, T., Tsuchiya, N., 2023. Continuous thermal structures of the present-day and contact-metamorphic geothermal systems revealed by drill cuttings in the Kakkonda geothermal field, Japan. Geothermics 115, 102806.
3. Mindaleva, D., Uno, M., Tsuchiya, N., 2023. Short‐lived and voluminous fluid‐flow in a single fracture related to seismic events in the middle crust. Geophysical Research Letters 50, e2022GL099892.