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• Kato, Y., Fujinaga, K., Nakamura, K., Takaya, Y., Kitamura, K., Ohta, J., Toda, R., Nakashima, T. and Iwamori, H.: Deep-sea mud in the Pacific Ocean as a potential resource for rare-earth elements. Nature Geoscience, vol. 4, 535-539, 2011
• Kato, Y., Fujinaga, K. and Suzuki, K.: Marine Os isotopic fluctuations in the early Eocene greenhouse interval as recorded by metalliferous umbers from a Tertiary ophiolite in Japan. Gondwana Research, vol. 20, 594-607, 2011
• Nozaki, T., Kato, Y. and Suzuki, K.: Re-Os geochronology of the Iimori Besshi-type massive sulfide deposit in the Sanbagawa metamorphic belt, Japan. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 74, 4322-4331, 2010
• Kato, Y., Suzuki, K., Nakamura, K., Hickman, A. H., Nedachi, M., Kusakabe, M., Bevacqua, D. C. and Ohmoto, H.: Hematite formation by oxygenated groundwater more than 2.76 billion years ago. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 278, 40-49, 2009
• Kato, Y., Yamaguchi, K. and Ohmoto, H.: Rare earth elements in Precambrian banded iron formations: Secular changes of Ce and Eu anomalies and evolution of atmospheric oxygen. In Kesler, S.E., and Ohmoto, H., eds., Evolution of Early Earth's Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Biosphere-Constraints from Ore Deposits: Geological Society of America Memoir 198, p. 269-289, 2006
• Kato, Y., Fujinaga, K. and Suzuki, K.: Major and trace element geochemistry and Os isotopic composition of metalliferous umbers from the Late Cretaceous Japanese accretionary complex. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystem vol. 7, Q07004, 2005
• Kato, Y. and Nakamura, K.: Origin and global tectonic significance of Early Archean cherts from the Marble Bar greenstone belt, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, vol. 125, 191-243, 2003
• Kato, Y., Nakao, K., and Isozaki, Y.: Geochemistry of Late Permian to Early Triassic pelagic cherts from southwest Japan: implications for an oceanic redox change. Chemical Geology, vol. 182, 15-34, 2002