Spatial variation in turbidite-to-contourite continuums of the Kiwada and Otadai formations in the Boso Peninsula, Japan: An unstable bottom-current system in a plio-pleistocene forearc basin

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 571-582

  Ito, Makoto ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; BOTTOM CURRENTS; CONTOURITE; CONTOURITES; DEEP SEA; DEEP SEA SEDIMENT; FOREARC BASIN; FOREARC BASINS; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITES;

JAPAN, HONSHU, BOSO PENINSULA;

DEPOSITS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

BOTTOM CURRENT; DEEP WATER MASS; DEEP-WATER PART; JAPANESE ISLANDS; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PLIO-PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030773999     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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