GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Executive Editor

H. YURIMOTO, Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan; e-mail: gj@geochem.jp

Vice Executive Editors

H. KAGI, Geochemical Laboratory, The University of Tokyo, Japan; e-mail: gj@geochem.jp
T. FAGAN, Department of Earth Sciences, School of Education, Waseda University, Japan; e-mail: gj@geochem.jp
N. OHKOUCHI, Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan; e-mail: gj@geochem.jp
M. SATISH-KUMAR, Department of Geology, Niigata University, Japan; e-mail: gj@geochem.jp
U. TSUNOGAI, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan; e-mail: gj@geochem.jp

Associate Editors

K. ANAZAWA, Department of Natural Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo, Japan
P. ARIYA, Dept. Chemistry & Dept. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Canada
M. BIZZARRO, Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
M. CHO, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea
P. CLAYES, Department of Geology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
C. ENGRAND, CSNSM-CNRS, Université de Paris SUD XI, France
D. FORTIN, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada
A. HOFMANN, Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
M. HONDA, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Australia
H. IWAMORI, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
K.-R. KIM, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea
K.-W. KIM, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
T. KOGISO, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
M. LEHMANN, Institute for Environmental Geoscience, Universität Basel, Switzerland
M. LUSTRINO, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
T. MATSUMOTO, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria
M. MILLER, British Antarctic Survey, UK
T. NAKATSUKA, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan
H. NARAOKA, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
C.-W. OH, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chonbuk National University, Korea
B. ORBERGER, Département des Sciences de la Terre, Université Paris SUD XI, France
D. PINTI, Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l'Atmosphère, Université du Québec à Montréal et GEOTOP-UQAM-McGill, Canada
C. QUANTIN, UMR 8148 IDES, Université Paris-Sud-CNRS, France
Y. SANO, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Japan
K. SAWADA, Department of Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan
N. STURCHIO, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago (MC-186), USA
K. SUZUKI, IFREE, JAMSTEC, Japan
S. TACHIBANA, Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan
K. TAKEDA, Department of Environmental Dynamics and Management, Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Japan
H. TANIMOTO, Atmospheric Environment Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
Y. TARAN, Instituto de Geofisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
K. TERADA, Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, Japan
T. WATANABE, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan
K. YAMAMOTO, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan
T. YAMANAKA, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Japan
T. YANG, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
C.-F. YOU, Department of Earth Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Y.-F. ZHENG, School of Earth and Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China, China

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