Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of a tide- and wave-dominated coastal succession: The Cretaceous Goshoura Group, Kyushu, southwest Japan

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 327-342

  Komatsu, Toshifumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continental margin; East Asia; Estuary; Facies analysis; Goshoura Group; Japan; Mid Cretaceous; Sequence stratigraphy; Tide dominated facies; Wave dominated facies

Indexed keywords

COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; FACIES ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

AMAKUSA ISLAND; JAPAN; KYUSHU;

ALBIA;

EID: 0032847445     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1999.0143     Document Type: Article

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