Early neogene biochemostratigraphy of Pohang Basin: A paleoceanographic response to the early opening of the Sea of Japan (East Sea)

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 269-290

  Kim, Jung Moo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

13C; 18O; Biochemostratigraphy; Early Neogene; Japan Sea; Planktonic foraminifera; Pohang Basin

Indexed keywords

JAPAN; SEA;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; NEOGENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY;

SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 0032912783     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(99)00006-7     Document Type: Article

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