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M. Murakami (2018). Silicate Glasses Under Ultrahigh Pressure Conditions. Magmas Under Pressure, 371-386.
I. Ohira, M. Murakami, S. Kohara, K. Ohara, E. Ohtani (2016). Ultrahigh-pressure acoustic wave velocities of SiO2-Al2O3 glasses up to 200 GPa. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 18, 3.
I. Mashino, M. Murakami, E. Ohtani (2016). Sound velocities of d-AlOOH up to core-mantle boundary pressures with implications for the seismic anomalies in deep mantle. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121 (2), 595-609.
M. Murakami, A.F. Goncharov, N. Hirao, R. Masuda, T. Mitsui, S-M, Thomas, C.R. Bina (2014). High-pressure radiative conductivity of dense silicate glasses with potential implications for dark-magmas. Nature Communications, 5:5428.
M. Murakami, Y. Ohishi, N. Hirao, K. Hirose (2012). A perovskitic lower mantle inferred from high-pressure, high-temperature sound velocity data. Nature, 90-94, 485.
Y. Kudo, K. Hirose, M. Murakami, Y. Asahara, H. Ozawa, Y. Ohishi, N. Hirao (2012). Sound velocity measurements of CaSiO3 perovskite to 133 GPa and implications for lowermost mantle seismic ano- malies. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 349-350, 1-7.
M. Murakami and J. D. Bass (2011). Evidence of denser MgSiO3 glass above 133 GPa and implications for remnants of ultradense silicate melt from a deep magma ocean. PNAS, 108, 17286 -17289.
M. Murakami and J. D. Bass (2010). Spectroscopic evidence for ultrahigh-pressure polymorphism in SiO2 glass. Physical Review Letters, 282, 124-128.
Y. Asahara, K. Hirose, Y. Ohishi, N. Hirao, M. Murakami (2010). Thermoelastic properties of ice VII and its high-pressure poly- morphs: Implications for dynamics of cold slab subduction in the lower mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 299, 474-482s.
Y. Asahara, M. Murakami, Y. Ohishi, N. Hirao, K. Hirose (2010). Sound velocity measurement in liquid water up to 25 GPa and 900 K: Implications for densities of water at lower mantle conditions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 282, 124-128.