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Miyakawa, A., Saito, S., Yamada, Y., Tomaru, H., Kinoshita, M. and Tsuji, T. (2014), Gas hydrate saturation in Kumano Basin, Island Arc 23, 142-156.

Nakajima, M.T.E., Takahata, N., Shirai, K., Kagoshima, T., Tanaka, K., Obata, H., Sano, Y. (2022), Monitoring the magmatic activity and volatile fluxes of an actively degassing submarine caldera in southern Japan, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 317, 106-117.

Owari, S. & Tomaru, H. (2022),  Data report: iodine in interstitial waters of outer-trench sediments off Sumatra Subduction Zone, IODP Expedition 362, Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program 362 (206).

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Shiraishi F., Akimoto T., Tomioka N., Takahashi Y., Matsumoto R., Snyder G.T. (2023), Microbial traces found in microdolomite associated with seep-related shallow gas hydrate, Frontiers in Earth Science 11, 1188142.

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Snyder, G.T., Matsumoto, R., Suzuki, Y., Kouduka, M., Kakizaki, Y., Zhang, N., Tomaru, H., Sano, Y., Takahata, T., Tanaka, K., Bowden, S.A., Imajo, T. (2020) Evidence in the Japan Sea of microdolomite mineralization within gas hydrate microbiomes, Scientific Reports 10, 1, 1876

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Yanagawa, K., Shiraishi, F., Tanigawa, Y., Maeda, T., Mustapha, A., Owari, S., Tomaru, H.,  Matsumoto,  R., Kano, A. (2019) Endolithic Microbial Habitats Hosted in Carbonate Nodules Currently Forming within Sediment at a High Methane Flux Site in the Sea of Japan, Geosciences 9(11), 463 

Yatsuk, A.,  A Gresov, A.,  Snyder, G.T. (2022) Hydrocarbon Gases in Seafloor Sediments of the Edge Shelf Zone of the East Siberian Sea and Adjacent Part of the Arctic Ocean, Frontiers in Earth Science 10, 856496

Zhang, M., Liu, W., Guan, L., Takahata, N., Sano, Y., Li, Y., Zhou, X., Chen, Z.,  Cao, C., Zhang, L., Lang, Y-C., Liu, C-Q., Xu, S, (2022), First estimates of hydrothermal helium fluxes in continental collision settings: Insights from the Southeast Tibetan Plateau margin, Geophysical Research Letters 49, e2022GL098228. 

Zhang, N., Snyder, G.T., Lin, M., Nakagawa, M., Gilbert, A., Yoshida, N., Matsumoto, R., Sekine, Y. (2021), Doubly substituted isotopologues of methane hydrate (13CH3D and 12CH2D2): Implications for methane clumped isotope effects, source apportionments and global hydrate reservoirs, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 315, 127-151

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