Historical Geoscience of the Biosphere aims to understand the evolutionary history of the earth’s biosphere, which includes organisms and their habitat---the shallow part and the surface of the planet. For this purpose, sedimentary rocks, which cover 90% of the earth’s surface, are important, because they yield fossils and are by themselves archives of historical records. This group deals with strata and fossils to understand specifically the evolutionary history of organisms (paleontology), deformations of the lithosphere (structural geology) and environmental changes (paleoenvironmentology), by means of geological field work, sample analysis, theoretical and experimental approaches.
Member
| Name | Research fields | Affiliation |
| Professor Atsushi YAMAJI |
Tectonics, Structural Geology, Geology, Stratigraphy, Physics of Solid Earth | Department of Geology and Mineralogy |
| Professor Takao UBUKATA |
Paleontology | Department of Geology and Mineralogy |
| Associate Professor Hajime NARUSE |
Sedimentology | Department of Geology and Mineralogy |
| Assistant Professor Hiroshige MATSUOKA |
Paleontology | Department of Geology and Mineralogy |
| Assistant Professor Katsushi SATO |
Structural Geology, Tectonophysics | Department of Geology and Mineralogy |