Shallow-marine turbiditic sandstones juxtaposed with deep-marine ones at the eastern margin of the Niigata Neogene backarc basin, central Japan

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 104, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 99-116

  Tokuhashi, Shuichi ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; DEEP WATER DEPOSIT; NEOGENE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SHALLOW WATER DEPOSIT; TURBIDITE;

JAPAN;

EID: 0029776553     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0037-0738(95)00123-9     Document Type: Article

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