in progress
Paleomagnetic directional groups and paleointensity from the flood basalt in the Tarim large igneous province: implication for rapid eruption, submitted
2015
Masahiko Sato, Yuhji Yamamoto, Takashi Nishioka, Kazuto Kodama, Nobutatsu Mochizuki, Yoichi Usui, Hideo Tsunakawa, Pressure effect on magnetic hysteresis parameters of single-domain magnetite contained in natural plagioclase crystal, Geophys. J. Int., 202, 394.
Usui, Y., Shibuya, T., Sawaki, Y., Komiya, T. Rock magnetism of tiny exsolved magnetite in plagioclase from a Paleoarchean granitoid in the Pilbara craton. G-cubed, 16(1), 112.
2013
Usui, Y., Paleointensity estimates from oceanic gabbros: Effects of hydrothermal alteration and cooling rate. Earth Planets Space, 65(9), 985.
2012
Usui, Y., Uehara, M., and Okuno, K. (2012), A rapid inversion and resolution analysis of magnetic microscope data by the subtractive optimally localized averages method. Computers and Geosciences, 38(1), 145, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2011.05.001.
2010
J.A. Tarduno, R.D. Cottrell, M.K. Watkeys, A. Hofmann, P.V. Doubrovine, E.E. Mamajek, D. Liu, D.G. Sibeck, L.P. Neukirch and Y. Usui, (2010), Geodynamo, Solar wind, and magnetopause 3.4 to 3.45 billion years ago,Science, 327, 1238, doi:10.1126/science.1183445.
Usui, Y., and S. Yamazaki (2010), Salvaging primary remanence from hydrothermally altered oceanic gabbros in the Oman ophiolite: A selective destructive demagnetization approach, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 181, 1, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2010.04.008.
2009
Usui, Y., J.A. Tarduno, K. Watkeys, A. Hofmann, R.D. Cottrell (2009), Evidence for a 3.45-billion-year-old magnetic remanence: Hints of an ancient geodynamo from conglomerates of South Africa, G-cubed, 10, Q09Z07, doi:10.1029/2009GC002496.
Usui, Y., and N. Nakamura (2009), Nonlinear thermoremanence corrections for Thellier paleointensity experiments on single plagioclase crystals with exsolved magnetites: a case study for the Cretaceous Normal Superchron, Earth Planet Space, 61, 1327.
2006
Usui, Y., N. Nakamura and T. Yoshida (2006), Magnetite microexsolutions in silicate and magmatic flow fabric of the Goyozan granitoid (NE Japan): Significance of partial remanence anisotropy, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B11101, doi:10.1029/2005JB004183.