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Sato Lab
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The lab reads the past of the Earth and the solar system from the magnetism of rocks and meteorites.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading Earth's history from the magnetism of rocks
Sato Lab studies ferromagnetic minerals in rocks and sediments to reveal the Earth's past.
Through paleomagnetism, which reads the past geomagnetic field recorded in rocks, the lab works to understand the evolution of the Earth's interior and surface environment.
The lab also works on rock magnetism, which investigates how rocks formed and past ocean environments from the state of their minerals, and on research into the protosolar disk through magnetic analysis of primitive meteorites.
The lab's website introduces it under the name 'Rock Magnetism Lab.'
Key terms
- Paleomagnetism
- A research field that reads information about the past geomagnetic field recorded by ferromagnetic minerals in rocks and sediments.
- Ferromagnetic minerals
- Minerals such as iron oxides and sulfides. They are widely found in natural samples and record magnetic information.
- Geomagnetic field
- The Earth's magnetic field, which is generated and maintained by convection in the liquid metal core.
NewsLab news
A paper on a simple polarizing microscope was published in Tokyo University of Science Teacher Education Research
A paper on magnetic analysis of Ryugu samples was accepted by JGR
A paper on magnetic analysis of marine sediments was accepted by JGR
A paper on research on the Tsukuba composite pluton was accepted by Island Arc
ResearchResearch themes
The geomagnetic field is generated and maintained by convection in the liquid metal core, so changes in its shape and strength offer clues to how the dynamics of the Earth's interior have evolved. The lab investigates the magnetism of ferromagnetic minerals in rocks, sediments, and meteorites, and advances research on the Earth's interior, surface environment, and the protosolar disk.
*Illustrative imagePaleomagnetism: reading the record of the geomagnetic field
The lab reads the past geomagnetic field recorded by ferromagnetic minerals in rocks and sediments. To study variations on timescales of hundreds of millions to billions of years, it is developing a new method using single silicate crystals in plutonic rocks and single zircon crystals in river sand, and it also studies the protosolar disk through magnetic analysis of primitive meteorites.
*Illustrative imageRock magnetism: exploring environments through the magnetism of rocks
The lab examines the state of ferromagnetic minerals in samples to obtain a wide range of geoscience information, such as rock formation mechanisms and reconstructions of past ocean environments. Its targets are broad: from sediments to igneous rocks, from oceans to land, and from Earth to Mars.
MembersFaculty
The members of Sato Lab are faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorMasahiko Sato
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Admire Meteorite End-Cut” Steve Jurvetson / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Paleomagnetism: reading the record of the geomagnetic field: “STUDYING PALEOMAGNETISM - STUDIANDO IL PALEOMAGNETISMO” Andrea Massagli / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Rock magnetism: exploring environments through the magnetism of rocks: “Magnetite-118736” Robert M. Lavinsky / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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