Depositional processes of primary to reworked volcaniclastics on an alluvial plain; an example from the Lower Pliocene Ohta tephra bed of the Tokai Group, central Japan

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 107, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 211-229

  Nakayama, Katsuhiro ^a   Yoshikawa, Shusaku ^b  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; PLIOCENE; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

JAPAN;

EID: 0030988412     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(96)00022-X     Document Type: Article

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