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163. Nakashima D., Nakamura T., Zhang M., Kita N. T., Mikouchi T., Yoshida H., Enokido Y., Morita T., Kikuiri M., Amano K., Kagawa E., Yada T., Nishimura M., Nakato A., Miyazaki A., Yogata K., Abe M., Okada T., Usui T., Yoshikawa M., Saiki T., Tanaka S., Nakazawa S., Terui F., Yurimoto H., Noguchi T., Yabuta H., Naraoka H., Okazaki R., Sakamoto K., Watanabe S.-I., Tachibana S. and Tsuda Y. (2023) Chondrule-like objects and Ca-Al-rich inclusions in Ryugu may potentially be the oldest Solar System materials. Nature Communications 14, 532.

162. MacPherson G. J., Beckett J., Kita N. T., Nagashima K., Krot A. N., Fournelle J., Kööp L., Hertwig A. T., Rose T. R. and Davis A. M. (2023) SIMS relative sensitivity factors for Al/Mg in synthetic and Madagascar hibonite. Chemical Geology 617, 121272.

161. Paquet M., Moynier F., Yokoyama T., Dai W., Hu Y., Abe Y., Aléon J., O’D. Alexander C. M., Amari S., Amelin Y., Bajo K.-I., Bizzarro M., Bouvier A., Carlson R. W., Chaussidon M., Choi B.-G., Dauphas N., Davis A. M., Di Rocco T., Fujiya W., Fukai R., Gautam I., Haba M. K., Hibiya Y., Hidaka H., Homma H., Hoppe P., Huss G. R., Ichida K., Iizuka T., Ireland T. R., Ishikawa A., Ito M., Itoh S., Kawasaki N., Kita N. T., Kitajima K., Kleine T., Komatani S., Krot A. N., Liu M.-C., Masuda Y., McKeegan K. D., Morita M., Motomura K., Nakai I., Nagashima K., Nesvorný D., Nguyen A. N., Nittler L., Onose M., Pack A., Park C., Piani L., Qin L., Russell S. S., Sakamoto N., Schönbächler M., Tafla L., Tang H., Terada K., Terada Y., Usui T., Wada S., Wadhwa M., Walker R. J., Yamashita K., Yin Q.-Z., Yoneda S., Young E. D., Yui H., Zhang A.-C., Nakamura T., Naraoka H., Noguchi T., Okazaki R., Sakamoto K., Yabuta H., Abe M., Miyazaki A., Nakato A., Nishimura M., Okada T., Yada T., Yogata K., Nakazawa S., Saiki T., Tanaka S., Terui F., Tsuda Y., Watanabe S.-I., Yoshikawa M., Tachibana S. and Yurimoto H. (2023) Nature Astronomy 7, 182–189.

160. Yokoyama T., Nagashima K., Nakai I., Young E. D., Abe Y., Aléon J., Alexander C. M. O. D., Amari S., Amelin Y., Bajo K.-I., Bizzarro M., Bouvier A., Carlson R. W., Chaussidon M., Choi B.-G., Dauphas N., Davis A. M., Di Rocco T., Fujiya W., Fukai R., Gautam I., Haba M. K., Hibiya Y., Hidaka H., Homma H., Hoppe P., Huss G. R., Ichida K., Iizuka T., Ireland T. R., Ishikawa A., Ito M., Itoh S., Kawasaki N., Kita N. T., Kitajima K., Kleine T., Komatani S., Krot A. N., Liu M.-C., Masuda Y., McKeegan K. D., Morita M., Motomura K., Moynier F., Nguyen A., Nittler L., Onose M., Pack A., Park C., Piani L., Qin L., Russell S. S., Sakamoto N., Schönbächler M., Tafla L., Tang H., Terada K., Terada Y., Usui T., Wada S., Wadhwa M., Walker R. J., Yamashita K., Yin Q.-Z., Yoneda S., Yui H., Zhang A.-C., Connolly H. C., Lauretta D. S., Nakamura T., Naraoka H., Noguchi T., Okazaki R., Sakamoto K., Yabuta H., Abe M., Arakawa M., Fujii A., Hayakawa M., Hirata N., Hirata N., Honda R., Honda C., Hosoda S., Iijima Y.-I., Ikeda H., Ishiguro M., Ishihara Y., Iwata T., Kawahara K., Kikuchi S., Kitazato K., Matsumoto K., Matsuoka M., Michikami T., Mimasu Y., Miura A., Morota T., Nakazawa S., Namiki N., Noda H., Noguchi R., Ogawa N., Ogawa K., Okada T., Okamoto C., Ono G., Ozaki M., Saiki T., Sakatani N., Sawada H., Senshu H., Shimaki Y., Shirai K., Sugita S., Takei Y., Takeuchi H., Tanaka S., Tatsumi E., Terui F., Tsuda Y., Tsukizaki R., Wada K., Watanabe S.-I., Yamada M., Yamada T., Yamamoto Y., Yano H., Yokota Y., Yoshihara K., Yoshikawa M., Yoshikawa K., Furuya S., Hatakeda K., Hayashi T., Hitomi Y., Kumagai K., Miyazaki A., Nakato A., Nishimura M., Soejima H., Suzuki A., Yada T., Yamamoto D., Yogata K., Yoshitake M., Tachibana S. and Yurimoto H. (2023) Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu are similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites. Science 379, eabn7850.

159. Kawasaki N., Nagashima K., Sakamoto N., Matsumoto T., Bajo K.-I., Wada S., Igami Y., Miyake A., Noguchi T., Yamamoto D., Russell S. S., Abe Y., Aléon J., Alexander C. M. O., Amari S., Amelin Y., Bizzarro M., Bouvier A., Carlson R. W., Chaussidon M., Choi B.-G., Dauphas N., Davis A. M., Di Rocco T., Fujiya W., Fukai R., Gautam I., Haba M. K., Hibiya Y., Hidaka H., Homma H., Hoppe P., Huss G. R., Ichida K., Iizuka T., Ireland T. R., Ishikawa A., Ito M., Itoh S., Kita N. T., Kitajima K., Kleine T., Komatani S., Krot A. N., Liu M.-C., Masuda Y., McKeegan K. D., Morita M., Motomura K., Moynier F., Nakai I., Nguyen A., Nittler L., Onose M., Pack A., Park C., Piani L., Qin L., Schönbächler M., Tafla L., Tang H., Terada K., Terada Y., Usui T., Wadhwa M., Walker R. J., Yamashita K., Yin Q.-Z., Yokoyama T., Yoneda S., Young E. D., Yui H., Zhang A.-C., Nakamura T., Naraoka H., Okazaki R., Sakamoto K., Yabuta H., Abe M., Miyazaki A., Nakato A., Nishimura M., Okada T., Yada T., Yogata K., Nakazawa S., Saiki T., Tanaka S., Terui F., Tsuda Y., Watanabe S.-I., Yoshikawa M., Tachibana S. and Yurimoto H. (2022) Oxygen isotopes of anhydrous primary minerals show kinship between asteroid Ryugu and comet 81P/Wild2. Science Advances 8, eade2067.

158. Hopp T., Dauphas N., Abe Y., Aléon J., Alexander C. M. O. D., Amari S., Amelin Y., Bajo K.-I., Bizzarro M., Bouvier A., Carlson R. W., Chaussidon M., Choi B.-G., Davis A. M., Rocco T. D., Fujiya W., Fukai R., Gautam I., Haba M. K., Hibiya Y., Hidaka H., Homma H., Hoppe P., Huss G. R., Ichida K., Iizuka T., Ireland T. R., Ishikawa A., Ito M., Itoh S., Kawasaki N., Kita N. T., Kitajima K., Kleine T., Komatani S., Krot A. N., Liu M.-C., Masuda Y., McKeegan K. D., Morita M., Motomura K., Moynier F., Nakai I., Nagashima K., Nesvorný D., Nguyen A., Nittler L., Onose M., Pack A., Park C., Piani L., Qin L., Russell S. S., Sakamoto N., Schönbächler M., Tafla L., Tang H., Terada K., Terada Y., Usui T., Wada S., Wadhwa M., Walker R. J., Yamashita K., Yin Q.-Z., Yokoyama T., Yoneda S., Young E. D., Yui H., Zhang A.-C., Nakamura T., Naraoka H., Noguchi T., Okazaki R., Sakamoto K., Yabuta H., Abe M., Miyazaki A., Nakato A., Nishimura M., Okada T., Yada T., Yogata K., Nakazawa S., Saiki T., Tanaka S., Terui F., Tsuda Y., Watanabe S.-I., Yoshikawa M., Tachibana S. and Yurimoto H. (2022) Ryugu’s nucleosynthetic heritage from the outskirts of the Solar System. Science Advances 8, eadd8141.

157. Barosch J., Nittler L. R., Wang J., O’D. Alexander C. M., De Gregorio B. T., Engrand C., Kebukawa Y., Nagashima K., Stroud R. M., Yabuta H., Abe Y., Aléon J., Amari S., Amelin Y., Bajo K. -i., Bejach L., Bizzarro M., Bonal L., Bouvier A., Carlson R. W., Chaussidon M., Choi B.-G., Cody G. D., Dartois E., Dauphas N., Davis A. M., Dazzi A., Deniset-Besseau A., Di Rocco T., Duprat J., Fujiya W., Fukai R., Gautam I., Haba M. K., Hashiguchi M., Hibiya Y., Hidaka H., Homma H., Hoppe P., Huss G. R., Ichida K., Iizuka T., Ireland T. R., Ishikawa A., Ito M., Itoh S., Kamide K., Kawasaki N., David Kilcoyne A. L., Kita N. T., Kitajima K., Kleine T., Komatani S., Komatsu M., Krot A. N., Liu M.-C., Martins Z., Masuda Y., Mathurin J., McKeegan K. D., Montagnac G., Morita M., Mostefaoui S., Motomura K., Moynier F., Nakai I., Nguyen A. N., Ohigashi T., Okumura T., Onose M., Pack A., Park C., Piani L., Qin L., Quirico E., Remusat L., Russell S. S., Sakamoto N., Sandford S. A., Schönbächler M., Shigenaka M., Suga H., Tafla L., Takahashi Y., Takeichi Y., Tamenori Y., Tang H., Terada K., Terada Y., Usui T., Verdier-Paoletti M., Wada S., Wadhwa M., Wakabayashi D., Walker R. J., Yamashita K., Yamashita S., Yin Q.-Z., Yokoyama T., Yoneda S., Young E. D., Yui H., Zhang A.-C., Abe M., Miyazaki A., Nakato A., Nakazawa S., Nishimura M., Okada T., Saiki T., Tanaka S., Terui F., Tsuda Y., Watanabe S.-I., Yada T., Yogata K., Yoshikawa M., Nakamura T., Naraoka H., Noguchi T., Okazaki R., Sakamoto K., Tachibana S. and Yurimoto H. (2022) Presolar Stardust in Asteroid Ryugu. Astrophysical Journal Letters 935, L3.

156. Scicchitano M. R., Jollands M. C., Williams I. S., Hermann J, Rubatto D., Kita N. T/, Nachlas W. O., Valley J. W., Escrig S. and Meibom A. (2022) Oxygen diffusion in garnet: Experimental calibration and implications for timescales of metamorphic processes and retention of primary O isotopic signatures. American Mineralogist 107, 1425-1441.

155. Zhang M., Fukuda K., Spicuzza M. J., Siron G., Heimann A., Hammerstrom A. J., Kita N. T., Ushikubo T. and Valley J. W. (2022) SIMS matrix effects in oxygen isotope analysis of olivine and pyroxene: Application to Acfer 094 chondrite chondrules and reconsideration of the primitive chondrule minerals (PCM) line. Chemical Geology 608, 121016.

154. Siron G., Fukuda K., Kimura M., Kita N. T. (2022) High precision 26Al-26Mg chronology of chondrules in unequilibrated ordinary chondrites: evidence for restricted formation ages. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 324, 312-345.

153. Dunham E. T.,  Wadhwa M., Desch S. J., Liu M. C, Fukuda K., Kita N., Hertwig A. T., Hervig R. L., Defouilloy C., Simon S. B.,  Davidson J., Schrader D. L., Fujimoto Y. (2022) Uniform initial 10Be/9Be inferred from refractory inclusions in CV3, CO3, CR2, and CH/CB chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 324, 194-220.

152. Fukuda K., Tenner T. J., Kimura M., Tomioka N., Siron G., Ushikubo T., Chaumard N., Hertwig A. T., Kita N. T. (2022) A temporal shift of chondrule generation from the inner to outer Solar System inferred from oxygen isotopes and Al-Mg chronology of chondrules from primitive CM and CO chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 322, 194-226.

151. Togashi T., Tomiya A., Kita N. T., Morishita Y. (2022) Magmatic evolution of the host magma of plutonic rocks in the Procellarum KREEP Terrane. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 321, 375-402. 

150. MacPherson G. j., Krot A.N., Kita N.T., Bullock E.S., Nagashima K., Ushikubo T., Ivanova M.A. (2022) The Formation of Type B CAIs: Evolution from Type A CAIs. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 321, 343-374.

149. Scicchitano M. R., Lafay R., Valley J. W., Kita N. T., Nachlas W. O. (2022) Protracted hydrothermal alteration recorded at the microscale in the Chenaillet ophicarbonates (Western Alps): Insights from in situ δ18O thermometry in serpentine, carbonate and magnetite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 318, 144-164.

148. Zhang M., Defouilloy C., Joswiak D. J., Brownlee D. E., Nakashima D., Siron G., Kitajima K. and Kita N. T. (2021) Oxygen isotope systematics of crystalline silicates in a giant cluster IDP: A genetic link to Wild 2 particles and primitive chondrite chondrules. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 564, 116928.

147. Weisberg M. K., Kita N. T., Fukuda K., Siron G. and Ebel D. S. (2021) Micro-distribution of oxygen isotopes in unequilibrated enstatite chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 300, 279-295.

146. Chaumard N., Defouilloy C., Hertwig A. T. and Kita N. T. (2021) Oxygen isotope systematics of chondrules in the Paris CM2 chondrite: Indication for a single large formation region across snow line. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 299, 199-218.

145. Fukuda K, Brownlee D. E., Joswiak D. J., Tenner T. J., Kimura M. and Kita N. T. (2021a) Correlated isotopic and chemical evidence for condensation origins of olivine in comet 81P/Wild 2 and in AOAs from CV and CO chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 293, 544-574.

144. Fukuda K., Hiyagon H., Fujiya W., Kagoshima T., Itano K., Iizuka T., Kita N. T. and Sano Y. (2021b) Irradiation origin of 10Be in the solar nebula: Evidence from Li-Be-B and Al-Mg isotope systematics, and REE abundances of CAIs from Yamato-81020 CO3.05 chondrite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 293, 187-204.

143. Siron G., Fukuda K., Kimura M. and Kita N. T. (2021) New constraints from 26Al-26Mg chronology of anorthite bearing chondrules in unequilibrated ordinary chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 293, 103-126.

142. Nakashima D., Kimura M., Yamada K., Noguchi T., Ushikubo T. and Kita N. (2020) Oxygen isotope study of the Asuka-881020 CH chondrite I: Non-porphyritic chondrules. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 290, 180-200.

141. Williams C. D., Sanborn M. E., Defouilloy C. E., Yin Q-Z., Kita N. T., Ebel D. S., Yamakawa A., Yamashita K. (2020) Chondrules reveal large-scale outward transport of inner Solar System materials in the protoplanetary disk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, 23426-23435.

140. Klug J. D., Singer B. S., Kita N. T. and Spicuzza M. J. (2020) Storage and evolution of Laguna del Maule rhyolites: Insight from volatile and trace element contents in melt inclusions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 125, e2020JB019475.

139. Fukuda K, Beard BL, Dunlap DR, Spicuzza MJ, Fournelle JH, Wadhwa M and Kita NT (2020) Magnesium isotope analysis of olivine and pyroxene by SIMS: Evaluation of matrix effects. Chemical Geology 540, 119482.

138. Goodrich C. A., Zolensky M. E., Fioretti A. M., Shaddad M. H., Downes H., Hiroi T., Kohl I., Young E. D., Kita N. T., Hamilton V. E., Riebe M. E. I., Busemann H., Macke R. J., Fries M., Ross D. K. and Jenniskens P. (2019) The first samples from Almahata Sitta showing contacts between ureilitic and chondritic lithologies: Implications for the structure and composition of asteroid 2008 TC3. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 54, 2769-2813.

137. Hertwig A. T., Kimura M., Defouilloy C. and Kita N. T. (2019) Oxygen isotope systematics of chondrule olivine, pyroxene, and plagioclase in one of the most pristine CV3Red chondrites (Northwest Africa 8613). Meteoritics & Planetary Science 54, 2666-2685.

136. Tenner T. J., Nakashima D., Ushikubo T., Tomioka N., Kimura M., Weisberg M. K. and Kita N. T. (2019) Extended chondrule formation intervals in distinct physicochemical environments: Evidence from Al-Mg isotope systematics of CR chondrite chondrules with unaltered plagioclase. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 260, 133-160.

135. Hertwig A. T., Kimura M., Ushikubo T., Defouilloy C. and Kita N. T. (2019) The 26Al-26Mg systematics of FeO-rich chondrules from Acfer 094: Two chondrule generations distinct in age and oxygen isotope ratios. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 253, 111-126.

134. MacPherson GJ, Defouilloy C and Kita NT (2018) High-precision Al–Mg isotopic systematics in USNM 3898 – The benchmark “ALL” for initial 87Sr/86Sr in the earliest Solar System. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 491, 238-243.

133. Chaumard N., Defouilloy C., and Kita NT (2018) Oxygen isotope systematics of chondrules in the Murchison CM2 chondrite and implications for the CO-CM relationship. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 228, 220-242.

132. Hertwig AT, Defouilloy C and Kita NT (2018) Formation of chondrules in a moderately high dust enriched disk: Evidence from oxygen isotopes of chondrules from the Kaba CV3 chondrite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 224, 116-131.

131. Shirai K., Otake T., Amano Y., Kuroki M., Ushikubo T., Kita N. T., Murayama M., Tsukamoto K. and Valley J. W. (2018) Temperature and depth distribution of Japanese eel eggs estimated using otolith oxygen stable isotopes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 236, 373-383. 

130. Kööp L., Nakashima D., Heck P. R., Kita N. T., Tenner T. J., Krot A. N., Nagashima K., Park C. and Davis A. M. (2018) A multielement isotopic study of refractory FUN and F CAIs: Mass-dependent and mass-independent isotope effects. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 221, 296-317.

129. Tenner, T., Ushikubo, T., Nakashima, D., Schrader, D., Weisberg, M., Kimura, M., & Kita, N. (2018). Oxygen Isotope Characteristics of Chondrules from Recent Studies by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry. In S. Russell, H. Connolly Jr., & A. Krot (Eds.), Chondrules: Records of Protoplanetary Disk Processes (Cambridge Planetary Science, pp. 196-246). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

128. Nagashima, K., Kita, N., & Luu, T. (2018). 26Al–26Mg Systematics of Chondrules. In S. Russell, H. Connolly Jr., & A. Krot (Eds.), Chondrules: Records of Protoplanetary Disk Processes (Cambridge Planetary Science, pp. 247-275). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

127. Miyagi I., Kita N., Morishita Y. (2017) The geochemical and petrological characteristics of prenatal caldera volcano: a case of the newly formed small dacitic caldera, Hijiori, Northeast Japan. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 172, 79.

126. McDougal D, Nakashima D, Tenner TJ, Kita NT, Valley JW and Noguchi T (2017) Intermineral oxygen three‐isotope systematics of silicate minerals in equilibrated ordinary chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 52, 2322-2342.

125. Schmitz B., Heck P. R., Alvarez W., Kita N. T., Rout S. S., Cronholm A., Defouilloy C., Martin E., Smit J. and Terfelt F. (2017) Meteorite flux to Earth in the Early Cretaceous as reconstructed from sediment-dispersed extraterrestrial spinels. Geology 45, 807-810. 

124. Togashi S. Kita N. T., Tomiya A. Morishita Y. (2017) Magmatic evolution of lunar highland rocks estimated from trace elements in plagioclase: A new bulk silicate Moon model with sub-chondritic Ti/Ba, Sr/Ba, and Sr/Al ratios. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 210, 152-183.

123. Defouilloy C., Nakashima D., Joswiak D. J., Brownlee D. E., Tenner T. J. and Kita N. T. (2017) Origin of crystalline silicates from Comet 81P/Wild 2: Combined study on their oxygen isotopes and mineral chemistry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 465, 145-154. 

122. Boschi S., Schmitz B., Heck P. R., Cronholm A., Defouilloy C., Kita N. T., Monechi S., Montanari A., Rout S. S. and Terfelt F. (2017) Late Eocene 3He and Ir anomalies associated with ordinary chondritic spinels. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 204, 205-218. 

121. Williams C. D., Ushikubo T., Bullock E. S., Janney P. E., Hines R. R., Kita N. T., Hervig R. L., MacPherson G. J., Mendybaev R. A., Richter F. M. and Wadhwa M. (2017) Thermal and chemical evolution in the early solar system as recorded by FUN CAIs: Part I – Petrology, mineral chemistry, and isotopic composition of Allende FUN CAI CMS-1. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 201, 25-48.

120. MacPherson G. J., Bullock E. S., Tenner T. J., Nakashima D., Kita N. T., Ivanova M. A., Krot A. N., Petaev M. I. and Jacobsen S. B. (2017) High precision Al–Mg systematics of forsterite-bearing Type B CAIs from CV3 chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 201, 65-82. 

119. Ushikubo T., Tenner T. J. Hiyagon H. and Kita N. T. (2017) A long duration of the 16O-rich reservoir in the solar nebula, as recorded in fine-grained refractory inclusions from the least metamorphosed carbonaceous chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 201, 103-122. 

118. Heck P. R., Schmitz B., Bottke W. F., Rout S. S., Kita N. T., Cronholm A., Defouilloy C., Dronov A. and Terfelt F. (2017). Rare meteorites common in the Ordovician period. Nature Astronomy 1, 0035. 

117. Goodrich C. A., Kita N. T., Sutton S. R., Wirick S. and Gross J. (2017) The Miller Range 090340 and 090206 meteorites: Identification of new brachinite‐like achondrites with implications for the diversity and petrogenesis of the brachinite clan. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 52, 949-978.

116. Goodrich C. A., Kita N. T., Yin Q.-Z., Sanborn M. E., Williams C. D., Nakashima D., Lane M. D. and Boyle S. (2017). Petrogenesis and provenance of ungrouped achondrite Northwest Africa 7325 from petrology, trace elements, oxygen, chromium and titanium isotopes, and mid-IR spectroscopy. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 203, 381-403. 

115. Tenner T. J., Kimura M. and Kita N. T. (2017). Oxygen isotope characteristics of chondrules from the Yamato‐82094 ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite: Further evidence for common O‐isotope environments sampled among carbonaceous chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 52, 268-294. 

114. Lunning N. G., Corrigan C. M., McSween H. Y., Tenner T. J., Kita N. T. and Bodnar R. J. (2016). CV and CM chondrite impact melts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 189, 338-358. 

113. Kööp L., Davis A. M., Nakashima D., Park C., Krot A. N., Nagashima K., Tenner T. J., Heck P. R. and Kita N. T. (2016). A link between oxygen, calcium and titanium isotopes in 26Al-poor hibonite-rich CAIs from Murchison and implications for the heterogeneity of dust reservoirs in the solar nebula. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 189, 70-95. 

112. Hiyagon H., Sugiura N., Kita N. T., Kimura M., Morishita Y. and Takehana Y. (2016). Origin of the eclogitic clasts with graphite-bearing and graphite-free lithologies in the Northwest Africa 801 (CR2) chondrite: Possible origin from a Moon-sized planetary body inferred from chemistry, oxygen isotopes and REE abundances. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 186, 32-48. 

111. Kööp L., Nakashima D., Heck P. R., Kita N. T., Tenner T. J., Krot A. N., Nagashima K., Park C., Davis A. M. (2016). New constraints on the relationship between 26Al and oxygen, calcium, and titanium isotopic variation in the early Solar System from a multielement isotopic study of spinel-hibonite inclusions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 184, 151-172. 

110. Heck P. R., Schmitz B., Rout S. S., Tenner T., Villalon K., Cronholm A., Terfelt F. and Kita N. T. (2016). A search for H-chondritic chromite grains in sediments that formed immediately after the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body 470 Ma ago. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 177, 120-129.

109. Kita N. T., Sobol P. E., Kern J. R., Lord N. E. and Valley J. W. (2015). UV light microscope: Improvements in optical imaging for a secondary ion mass spectrometer. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 30, 1207-1213. 

108. Lunning N. G., McSween H. Y., Tenner T. J., Kita N. T. and Bodnar R. J. (2015). Olivine and pyroxene from the mantle of asteroid 4 Vesta. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 418, 126-135.

107. Nakashima D., Ushikubo T., Kita N. T., Weisberg M. K., Zolensky M. E. and Ebel D. S. (2015). Late formation of a comet Wild 2 crystalline silicate particle, Pyxie, inferred from Al–Mg chronology of plagioclase. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 410, 54-61.

106. Tenner T. J., Nakashima D., Ushikubo T., Kita N. T., Weisberg M. K. (2015). Oxygen isotope ratios of FeO-poor chondrules in CR3 chondrites: Influence of dust enrichment and H2O during chondrule formation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 148, 228-250.

105. Weisberg M. K., Ebel D. S., Nakashima D., Kita N. T., Humayun M. (2015). Petrology and geochemistry of chondrules and metal in NWA 5492 and GRO 95551: A new type of metal-rich chondrite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 167, 269-285.

104. Joswiak D. J., Nakashima D., Brownlee D. E., Matrajt G., Ushikubo T., Kita N. T., Messenger S. and Ito M. (2014). Terminal particle from Stardust Track 130: Probable Al-rich chondrule fragment from comet Wild 2. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 144, 277-298.

103. Singer B. S., Jicha B. R., Fournelle J. H., Beard B. L., Johnson C. M., Smith K. E., Greene S. E., Kita N. T., Valley J. W., Spicuzza M. J. and Rogers N. W. (2014). Lying in wait: deep and shallow evolution of dacite beneath Volcán de Santa María, Guatemala, in: Georg F. Zellmer (ed) Orogenic Andesites and Crustal Growth. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 385, 209-234.

102. Van Orman J. A., Cherniak D. J., and Kita N. T. (2014) Magnesium Diffusion in Plagioclase: Dependence on Composition, and Implications for Thermal Resetting of the 26Al-26Mg Early Solar System Chronometer. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 385, 79-88.

101. Li W., Huberty J. M., Beard B. L., Kita N. T., Valley J. W., and Johnson C. M. (2013) Contrasting Behavior of Oxygen and Iron Isotopes in Banded Iron Formations Revealed by in Situ Isotopic Analysis. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 384, 132-143.

100. Nakashima D., Kita N. T., Ushikubo T., Noguchi T., Nakamura T. and Valley J. W. (2013). Oxygen three-isotope ratios of silicate particles returned from asteroid Itokawa by the Hayabusa spacecraft: A strong link with equilibrated LL chondrites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 379, 127-136. 

99. Bullock E. S., Knight K. B., Richter F. M., Kita N. T., Ushikubo  T., Davis A. M., MacPherson G. J., and Mendybaev R. A. (2013) Mg and Si Isotopic Fractionation Patterns in Types B1 and B2 Cais: Implications for Formation under Different Nebular Conditions. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 48, 1440-1458.

98. Kita N. T., Yin Q.-Y., MacPherson G. J., Ushikubo T., Jacobsen B., Nagashima K., Kurahashi E., Krot A. N. and Jacobsen S. B. (2013). 26Al-26Mg isotope systematics of the first solids in the early Solar System. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 48, 1383-1400.

97. Kita N. T., Welten K. C., Valley J. W., Spicuzza M. J., Nakashima D., Tenner T. J., Ushikubo T., MacPherson G. J., Welzenbach L., Heck P. R., Davis A. M., Meier M. M. M., Wieler R., Caffee M. W., Laubenstein M. and Nishiizumi K. (2013). Fall, classification, and exposure history of the Mifflin L5 chondrite. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 48, 641-655.

96. Ushikubo T., Nakashima D., Kimura M., Tenner T. J. and Kita N. T. (2013). Contemporaneous formation of chondrules in distinct oxygen isotope reservoirs. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 109, 280-295.

95. Fu B., Kita N. T., Wilde S. A., Liu X., Cliff J., and Greig A. (2013) Origin of the Tongbai-Dabie-Sulu Neoproterozoic Low-D18o Igneous Province, East-Central China. Contrib. Min. Pet. 165, 641-662.

94. Tenner T. J., Ushikubo T., Kurahashi E., Nagahara H., and Kita N. T. (2013) Oxygen isotope systematics of chondrule phenocrysts from the CO3.0 chondrite Yamato 81020: Evidence for two distinct oxygen isotope reservoirs. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 102, 226-245.

93. Peres P., Kita N. T., Valley J. W., Fernandes F., and Schuhmacher M. (2013) New sample holder geometry for high precision isotope analyses. Surface and Interface Analysis (SIMS Proceedings) 45, 553-556.

92. Nakashima D., Ushikubo T., Joswiak D. J., Brownlee D. E., Matrajt G., Weisberg M. K., Zolensky M. E., and Kita N. T. (2012) Oxygen isotopes in crystalline silicates of comet Wild 2: A comparison of oxygen isotope systematics between Wild 2 particles and chondritic materials. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 357-358, 355-365.

91. Kitajima K., Ushikubo T., Kita N. T., Maruyama S., and Valley J. W. (2012) Relative retention of trace element and oxygen isotope ratios in zircon from Archean rhyolite, Panorama Formation, North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Chemical Geology 332-333, 102-115.

90. Ushikubo T., Kimura M., Kita N. T., and Valley J. W. (2012) Primordial oxygen isotope reservoirs of the solar nebula recorded in chondrules in Acfer 094 carbonaceous chondrite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 90, 242-264.

89. Kita N. T. and Ushikubo T. (2012) Evolution of protoplanetary disk inferred from 26Al chronology of individual chondrules. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 47, 1108-1119.

88. Kita N. T., Ushikubo T., Knight K. B., Mendybaev R. A., Davis A. M., Richter F. M., and Founelle J. H. (2012) Internal 26Al-26Mg isotope systematics of a Type B CAI: Remelting of refractory precursor solids. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 86, 37-51.

87. MacPherson G. J., Kita N. T., Ushikubo T., Bullock E. S., and Davis A. M. (2012) Well-resolved variations in formation ages for Ca-Al-rich inclusions in the early Solar System. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 331-332, 43-54.

86. Blondes M. S., Brandon M. T., Reiners P. W., Kita N. T., and Page F. Z. (2012) Generation of forsteritic olivine (Fo99·8) by subsolidus oxidation in basaltic flows. J. Petrol. 53, 971-984.

85. Nakashima D., Ushikubo T., Zolensky M. E., and Kita N. T. (2012) High Precision Oxygen Three-Isotope Analyses of Anhydrous Chondritic Interplanetary Dust Particles. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 47, 197-208.

84. Bouvier A.-S., Ushikubo T., Kita N. T., Cavosie A. J., Kozdon R., and Valley J. W. (2012) Li Isotopes and Trace Element as a Petrogenetic Tracer in Zircon: Insights from Archean Ttgs and Sanukitoids. Contrib. Min. Pet. 163, 745-768.

83. Rudraswami N. G., Ushikubo T., Nakashima D., and Kita N. T. (2011) Oxygen Isotope Systematics of Chondrules in Allende CV3 Chondrite: High Precision Ion Microprobe Studies. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 75, 7596-7611.

82. Sobolev N., Schertl H.-P., Valley J. W., Page F. Z., Kita N. T., Spicuzza M. J., Neuser R. D., and Logvinova A. M. (2011) Oxygen Isotope Variations of Garnets and Clinopyroxenes in a Layered Diamondiferous Calcsilicate Rock from Kokchetav Massif, Kazakhstan: A Window into the Geochemical Nature of Deeply Subducted Uhpm Rocks. Contrib. Min. Pet. 162, 1079-1092.

81. Bowman JR, Moser DE, Valley JW, Wooden JL, Kita NT and Mazdab FK (2011). Zircon U-Pb isotope, δ18O and trace element response to 80 m.y. of high temperature metamorphism in the lower crust; Sluggish diffusion and new records of Archean craton formation. Ame. J. Sci. 311, 719-772.

80. Weisberg M. K., Ebel D. S., Connolly H. C., Kita N. T., and Ushikubo T. (2011) Petrology and Oxygen Isotopic Compositions of Chondrules in E3 Chondrites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 75, 6556-6569.

79. Cavosie A. J., Valley J. W., Kita N. T., Spicuzza M. J., Ushikubo T., and Wilde S. A. (2011) The Origin of High Δ18o Zircons: Marbles, Megacrysts, and Metamorphism. Contrib. Min. Pet. 162, 961-974.

78. Heck P. R., Huberty J. M., Kita N. T., Ushikubo T., Kozdon R., and Valley J. W. (2011) Sims Analyses of Silicon and Oxygen Isotope Ratios for Quartz from Archean and Paleoproterozoic Banded Iron Formations. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 75, 5879-5891.

77. Noguchi T., Nakamura T., Ushikubo T., Kita N., Valley J. W., Yamanaka R., Kimoto Y., and Kitazawa Y. (2011) A Chondrule Captured by Space Exposed Aerogel on the International Space Station. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 309, 198-206.

76. Kozdon R., Kelly D. C., Kita N. T., Fournelle J. H., and Valley J. W. (2011) Planktonic Foraminiferal Oxygen Isotope Analysis by Ion Microprobe Technique Suggests Warm Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures During the Early Paleogene. Paleoceanography 26, PA3206.

75. Schmitz B., Heck P. R., Alwmark C., Kita N. T., Meier M. M. M., Peucker-Ehrenbrink B., Ushikubo T., and Valley J. W. (2011) Determining the Impactor of the Ordovician Lockne Crater: Oxygen and Neon Isotopes in Chromite Versus Sedimentary Pge Signatures. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 306, 149-155.

74. Nakashima D., Ushikubo T., Rudraswami G. N., Kita N. T., Valley J. W., and Nagao K. (2011) Ion Microprobe Analyses of Oxygen Three Isotope Ratios of Chondrules from the Sayh Al Uhaymir 290 Ch Chondrite Using a Multiple-Hole Disk. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 46, 857-874.

73. Kita NT, Huberty JM, Kozdon R, Beard BL and Valley JW (2011). High precision SIMS oxygen, sulfur and iron stable isotope analyses of geological materials: accuracy, surface topography and crystal orientation. Surface and Interface Analysis 43, 427-431.

72. Goodrich CA, Kita NT, Spicuzza MJ, Valley JW, Zipfel J, Mikouchi T and Miyamoto M (2010). The Northwest Africa 1500 meteorite: Not a ureilite, maybe a brachinite. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 45, 1906-1928.

71. Kita NT, Nagahara H, Tachibana S, Tomomura S, Spicuzza MJ, Fournelle JH and Valley JW (2010). High precision SIMS oxygen three isotope study of chondrules in LL3 chondrites: Role of ambient gas during chondrule formation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 74, 6610-6635.

70. Ferry JM, Ushikubo T, Kita NT and Valley JW (2010). Assessment of grain-scale homogeneity and equilibration of carbon and oxygen isotope compositions of minerals in carbonate-bearing metamorphic rocks by ion microprobe. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 74, 6517-6540.

69. Huberty JM, Kita NT, Kozdon R, Heck PR, Fournelle JH, Spicuzza MJ, Xu H and Valley JW (2010). Crystal orientation effects in δ18O for magnetite and hematite by SIMS. Chemical Geology 276, 269-283.

68. Kozdon R, Kita NT, Huberty JM, Fournelle JH, Johnson CA and Valley JW (2010). In situ sulfur isotope analysis of sulfide minerals by SIMS: Precision and accuracy, with application to thermometry of 3.5 Ga Pilbara cherts. Chemical Geology 275, 243-253. 

67. Goodrich C. A., Hutcheon I. D., Kita N. T., Huss G. R., Cohen B. A., and Keil K. (2010) 53Mn–53Cr and 26Al–26Mg Ages of a feldspathic lithology in polymict ureilites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 295, 531-540.

66. Fu B, Valley JW, Kita NT, Spicuzza MJ, Paton C, Tsujimori T, Bröcker M and Harlow GE (2010). Multiple origins of zircons in jadeitite. Contrib. Min. Pet. 159, 769-780

65. MacPherson G. J., Bullock E. S., Jenny P. E., Kita N. T., Ushikubo T., Davis A. M., Wadhwa M., and Krot A. N. (2010) Early solar nebula condensates with canonical, not supracanonical, initial 26Al/27Al ratios. Astrophysical Journal Letters 711, L117-L121.

64. Page F., Kita N., and Valley J. W. (2010) Ion microprobe analysis of oxygen isotopes in garnets of complex chemistry. Chemical Geology 270, 9-19.

63. Heck P. R., Ushikubo T., Schmitz B., Kita N. T., Spicuzza M. J., and Valley J. W. (2010) A single asteroidal source for extraterrestrial Ordovician chromite grains from Sweden and China: High-precision oxygen three-isotope SIMS analysis. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 74, 497-509.

62. Nakamura T., Noguchi T., Tsuchiyama A., Ushikubo T., Kita N. T., Valley J. W., Zolensky M. E., Kakazu Y., Sakamoto K., Mashio E., Uesugi K., and Nakano T. (2009) Chondrules in Short-Period Comet 81p/Wild 2 Recovered by the Stardust Mission. Chikyukagaku (Geochemistry) 43, 143-153 (in Japanese).

61. Liu Y., Taylor L. A., Sarbadhikari A. B., Valley J. W., Ushikubo T., Spicuzza M. J., Kita N., Ketcham R. A., Carlson W., Shatsky V., and Sobolev N. V. (2009) Metasomatic Origin of Diamonds in the World’s Largest Diamondiferous Eclogite. LITHOS 112S, 1014-1024.

60. Knight K. B., Kita N. T., Mendybaev R. A., Richter F. M., Davis A. M., and Valley J. W. (2009) Silicon Isotopic Fractionation of CAI-like Vacuum Evaporation Residues. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, 6390-6401.

59. Dattagupta S., Schaperdoth I., Montanari A., Mariani S., Kita N., Valley J. W., and Macalady J. (2009) A Novel Symbiosis between Chemoautotrophic Bacteria and a Freshwater Cave Amphipod. ISME J. 3, 935-943.

58. Cavosie A. J., Kita N. T., and Valley J. W. (2009) Primitive Oxygen-Isotope Ratio Recorded in Magmatic Zircon from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. American Mineralogist 94, 926-934.

57. Kita N. T., Ushikubo T., Fu B., and Valley J. W. (2009) High Precision Sims Oxygen Isotope Analysis and the Effect of Sample Topography. Chemical Geology 264, 43-57.

56. Blank J. G., Green S. J., Blake D., Valley J. W., Kita N. T., Treiman A., and Dobson P. F. (2009) An Alkaline Spring System within the Del Puerto Ophiolite (California, USA): A Mars Analog Site. Planetary and Space Science 57, 533-540.

55. Liu D., Wilde S. A., Wan Y., Wang S., Valley J. W., Kita N., Dong C., Xie H., Yang C., Zhang Y., and Gao L. (2009) Combined U-Pb, Hafnium and Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Zircons from Meta-Igneous Rocks in the Southern North China Craton Reveal Multiple Events in the Late Mesoarchean-Early Neoarchean. Chemical Geology 261, 140-154.

54. Fu B., Mernagh T. P., Kita N. T., Kemp A. I. S., and Valley J. W. (2009) Distinguishing Magmatic Zircon from Hydrothermal Zircon: A Case Study from the Gidginbung High-Sulphidation Au-Ag-(Cu) Deposit, Se Australia. Chemical Geology 259, 131-142.

53. Kozdon R., Ushikubo T., Kita N. T., Spicuzza M. J., and Valley J. W. (2009) Intratest Oxygen Isotope Variability in Planktonic Foraminifera: Real Vs. Apparent Vital Effects by Ion Microprobe. Chemical Geology 258, 327-337.

52. Bowman J. R., Valley J. W., and Kita N. T. (2009) Mechanisms of Oxygen Isotopic Exchange and Isotopic Evolution of 18o/16o-Depleted Periclase Zone Marbles in the Alta Aureole, Utah-Insights from Ion Microprobe Analysis of Calcite. Contrib. Min. Pet. 157, 77-93.

51. Orland I. J., Bar-Matthews M., Kita N. T., Ayalon A., Matthews A., and Valley J. W. (2009) Climate Deterioration in the Eastern Mediterranean from 200 Bc to 1100 Ad as Revealed by Ion Microprobe Analysis of Speleothems from Soreq Cave, Israel. Quaternary Research 71, 27-35.

50. Lancaster P. J., Fu B., Page F. Z., Kita N. T., Bickford M. E., Hill B. M., McLelland J. M., and Valley J. W. (2009) Genesis of Metapelitic Migmatites in the Adirondack Mts., New York. Journal of Metamorphic Petrology 27, 41-54.

49. Valley J. W. and Kita N. (2009) In Situ Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry by Ion Microprobe. Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course 41, Toronto, May 2009, 19-63.

48. Downes H, Mittlefehldt DW, Kita NT, and Valley JW. (2008) Evidence from polymict ureilite meteorites for a disrupted and re-accreted single ureilite parent asteroid gardened by several distinct impactors. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, 4825-4844.

47. Nakamura T, Noguchi T, Tsuchiyama A, Zolensky ME, Ushikubo T, Kita NT, Valley JW, Kakazu Y, Sakamoto K, Mashio E, Uesugi K and Nakano T (2008) Chondrule-like objects in Short-period Comet 81P/Wild 2. Science 321, 1664-1667.

46. Kurahashi E, Kita NT, Nagahara H and Morishita Y. (2008) 26Al-26Mg systems of chondrules in a primitive CO chondrites. (2008) Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, 3865-3882.

45. Ushikubo T, Kita NT, Cavosie AJ, Wilde SA, Rudnick RL and Valley JW (2008) Lithium in Jack Hills zircons: Evidence for extensive weathering of Earth’s earliest crust. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 272, 666-676.

44. Fu B, Page FZ, Cavosie AJ, Fournelle J, Kita NT, Lackey J-S, Wilde SA and Valley JW (2008) Ti-in-Zircon thermometry: applications and limitations. Contrib Mineral Petrol. 156, 197-215.

43. Moser DE, Bowman JR, Wooden J, Valley JW, Mazdab F and Kita N (2008) Creation of a continent recorded in zircon zoning. Geology 36, 239-242.

42. Wilde SA, Valley JW, Kita NT, Cavosie AJ and Liu D (2008) SHRIMP U-Pb and CAMECA 1280 oxygen isotope results from ancient detrital zircons in the Caozhuang quartzite, Eastern Hebei, North China Craton: Evidence for crustal reworking 3.8 Ga ago. Am. J. Sci. 308, 185-199. 

41. Bindeman IN, Fu B, Kita NT and Valley JW (2008) Origin and evolution of silicic magmatism at Yellowstone based on ion microprobe analysis of isotopically zoned zircons. J. Petrol. 49, 163-193. 

40. Nagahara H, Kita NT, Ozawa K and Morishita Y (2008) Condensation of major elements during chondrules formation and its implication to the origin of chondrules. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, 1442-1465. 

39. Kita, N. (2008) Meteoritic Chronology (Chapter 1, in Geochemistry Course 2: Cosmochemistry, Eds. Matsuda J and Yurimoto H., Baifu-kan, Tokyo, Japan, in Japanese).

38. Weidel BC, Ushikubo T, Carpenter, SR, Kita, NT, Cole, JJ, Kitchell, JF, Pace, ML, Valley, JW (2007) Diary of a bluegill (Lempomis macrochirus): daily δ13C and δ18O records in otoliths by ion microprobe. Can. J. Fish Aquat. Sci. 64, 1641-1645

37. Page FZ, Ushikubo T, Kita NT, Riciputi LR, Valley JW (2007) High precision oxygen isotope analysis of picogram samples reveals 2-m gradients and slow diffusion in zircon. Am. Mineral. 92, 1772-1775.

36. Eiler JM, Schiano P, Valley JW, Kita NT, Stolper EM (2007) Oxygen-isotope and trace element constraints on the origins of silica-rich melts in the sub-arc mantle. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys. 8, Q09012.

35. Kelly JL, Fu B, Kita NT, Valley JW (2007) Optically Continuous Silcrete Cements Of The St. Peter Sandstone: Oxygen Isotope Analysis By Ion Microprobe And Laser Fluorination. Geochem. Cosmochim. Acta 71, 3812-3832.

34. Page FZ, Fu B, Kita NT, Fournelle J, Spicuzza MJ, Schulze DJ, Viljoen V, Basei MAS, Valley JW (2007) Zircons from kimberlites: New insights from oxygen isotopes, trace elements, and Ti in zircon thermometry. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 71, 3887-3903.

33. Zhang, HF, Ying JF, Shimoda G, Kita NT, Morishita Y, Shao JA and Tang, YH. (2007) Importance of melt circulation and crust-mantle interaction in the lithospheric evolution beneath the North China Craton: Evidence from Mesozoic basalt-borne clinopyroxene xenocrysts and pyroxenite xenoliths. LITHOS 96, 67-89.

32. Desbois G, Ingrin J, Kita NT, Valley JW, And Deloule E (2007) New constraints on metamorphic history of Adirondack diopsides (NY, USA): Al and 18O profiles. Am. Mineral. 92, 453-459.

31. Takeuchi, M., Kawahata, H., Guputa, L.P., Kita, N., Morishita, Y., Ono, Y., Komai, T. (2007) Arsenic resistance and removal by marine and non-marine bacteria. J. Biotechnology 127, 434-442.

30. Tachibana, S., Huss, G.R., Kita, N.T., Shimoda, G., and Morishita, Y. (2006) Fe-60 in chondrites: Debris from a nearby supernova in the early solar system? Astrophys. J. 639, L87-L90.

29. Ying, J., Zhang, H., Kita, N., Morishita, Y., and Shimoda, G. (2006) Nature and evolution of Late Cretaceous lithospheric mantle beneath the eastern North China Craton: Constraints from petrology and geochemistry of peridotitic xenoliths from Jünan, Shandong Province, China. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 244, 622-638. 

28. Nakamoto, T., Kita, N.T. and S. Tachibana (2005) Chondrule age distribution and rate of heating events for chondrule formation. Antarctic Meteorite Research 18, 253-272.

27. Shimoda, G. Ikeda, Y., Kita, N.T., Morishita, Y. and Imae, N. (2005) Two-stage plume melting: A possible mechanism for the origin of martian magmatism. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 235, 469-479.

26. Kita, N.T., Huss, G.R., Tachibana, S., Amelin, Y., Nyquist L.E., and Hutcheon, I.D. (2005) Constraints on the Origin of Chondrules and CAIs from Short-Lived and Long-Lived Radionuclides. In Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk (Eds. Krot, A.N., Scott, E.R.D. and Reipurth, B.), ASP Conference Series, 341, pp. 558-587. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco.

25. Nakamoto, T., Hayashi, M. R., Kita, N. T., Tachibana, S. (2005) Chondrule-forming Shock Waves in the Solar Nebula by X-Ray Flares. In Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk (Eds. Krot, A.N., Scott, E.R.D. and Reipurth, B.), ASP Conference Series, 341, pp. 883-892. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco.

24. Kita, N.T., Ikeda, Y., Togashi, S., Liu, Y.Z., Morishita, Y. and Weisberg, M.K. (2004) Origin of ureilites inferred from a SIMS oxygen isotopic and trace element study of clasts in the Dar al Gani 319 polymict ureilite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 68, 4213-4235.

23. Wiedenbeck, M., Hanchar, J.M., Peck, W.H., Sylvester, P., Valley, J., Whitehouse, M., Kronz, A., Morishita, Y., Nasdala, L., Fiebig, J., Franchi, I., Girard, J.P., Greenwood, R.C., Hinton R., Kita, N., Mason, P.R.D, Norman, M., Ogasawara, M., Piccoli, R., Rhede, D., Satoh, H., Schulz-Dobrick, B., Skar, O., Spicuzza, M.J., Terada, K., Tindle, A., Togashi, S., Vennemann, T., Xie, Q., Zheng, Y.F. (2004) Further  haracterization of the 91500 zircon crystal. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 28, 9-39.

22. Tachibana, S., Nagahara, H., Mostefaoui, S. and Kita, N.T. (2003) Correlation between relative ages inferred from 26Al and bulk compositions of ferromagnesian chondrules in least equilibrated ordinary chondrites. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 38, 939-962.

21. Ikeda, Y., Kita, N.T., Morishita, Y. and Weisberg, M. K. (2003) Primitive clasts in the Dar al Gani 319 polymict ureilite: precursor of the ureilites. Antarctic Meteorite Research 16, 105-127.

20. Kita, N.T., S. Mostefaoui, Y.Z. Liu, Togashi, S. and Morishita, Y. (2003) Application of high precision SIMS 26Al-26Mg analyses to the early solar system chronology. Applied Surface Science 203-204, 806-809. (Proceedings of the SIMS XIII)

19. Togashi, S., Kita, N.T., Tomiya, A., Morishita, Y. and Imai, N. (2003) Melt contribution to partitioning of trace element between plagioclase and basaltic magma of Fuji volcano, Japan. Applied Surface Science 203-204, 814-817. (Proceedings of the SIMS XIII)

18. Mostefaoui, S., Kita, N.T., Tachibana, S., Togashi, S., Nagahara, H. and Morishita, Y. (2002) The relative formation ages of ferromagnesian chondrules inferred from their initial aluminum-26/aluminum-27 ratios. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 37, 421-438.

17. Kita, N.T., Nagahara, H., Togashi, S. and Morishita, Y. (2000) A short duration of chondrule formation in the solar nebula: evidence from 26Al in Semarkona ferromagnesian chondrules. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64, 3913-3922.

16. Morishita, Y., Kita, N.T., and Togashi, S. (2000) Precise isotopic analysis of silicon crystals for the molar mass determination using the ims-1270 SIMS with multicollectors. Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry, SIMS XII, Elsevier, 1003-1006.

15. Premo, W., Tatsumoto, M., Misawa, K., Nakamura, N. and Kita, N.T. (1999) Pb isotopic systematics of non-marebasalt lunar rocks (>3.9 Ga): constraint on early lunar evolution. International Geology Review 41, 95-128.

14. Kita, N. T. (1999) Chronology of Enstatite chondrites and ureilites, Chikyukagaku (Geochemistry) 33, 103-114 (in Japanese).

13. Kita, N.T., Togashi, S., Terashima, S., Morishita, Y. and Yurimoto, H. (1998) Search for 60Ni excess in MET-78008 ureilite: An ion microprobe study. Antarctic Meteorite Research 11, 105-123.

12. Morishita, Y., Sasaki, A., Kita, N.T., and Togashi, S. (1998) Microanalysis for sulfur and oxygen isotopic ratios using SIMS. Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry, SIMS XI, John Wiley & Sons, 67-70.

11. Torigoye-Kita, N., Misawa, K. and Tatsumoto, M. (1995) Reply to comments by C. A. Goodrich, G. W. Lugmair, M. J. Drake and P. J. Patchett on “U-Th-Pb and Sm-Nd isotopic systematics of the Goalpara ureilite: Resolution of terrestrial contamination”. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59, 4087-4091.

10. Torigoye-Kita, N., Misawa, K., Dalrymple, G. B. and Tatsumoto, M. (1995) Further evidence for a low U/Pb source in the Moon: U-Th-Pb, Sm-Nd, and Ar-Ar isotopic systematics of lunar meteorite, Yamato-793169. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59, 2609-2620.

9. Torigoye-Kita, N., Tatsumoto, M., G. P. Meeker, and K. Yanai (1995) The 4.56 Ga U-Pb age of the MET-78008 ureilite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59, 2319-2329.

8. Torigoye-Kita, N., Misawa, K., and Tatsumoto, M. (1995) U-Th-Pb and Sm-Nd isotopic systematics of the Goalpara ureilite: Resolution of terrestrial contamination. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59, 381-390.

7. Shima, M. and Torigoye, N. (1993) The isotopic composition and atomic weight of titanium. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Processes 123, 29-39.

6. Torigoye, N. and Shima, M. (1993) Evidence for a late thermal event of unequilibrated enstatite chondrites: a Rb-Sr study of Qingzhen and Yamato 6901 (EH3) and Khairpur (EL6). Meteoritics 28, 515-527.

5. Torigoye, N., Yamamoto, K., Misawa, K., and Nakamura, N. (1993) Compositions of REEs, K, Rb, Sr, Ba, Mg, Ca, Fe, and Sr isotopes in Antarctic unique meteorites. Proc. NIPR Symp. Antarct. Meteorites 6, 100-119.

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