Magnetostratigraphy of Plio-Pleistocene sediments in a 1700-m core from Osaka Bay, southwestern Japan and short geomagnetic events in the middle Matuyama and early Brunhes chrons

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 233-248

  Biswas, D K ^a   Hyodo, M ^a   Taniguchi, Y ^a   Kaneko, M ^a   Katoh, S ^b   Sato, H ^b   Kinugasa, Y ^c   Mizuno, K ^c  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MUSEUM OF NATURE AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES   (Japan)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geomagnetic excursion; Magnetostratigraphy; Osaka Group; Plio Pleistocene sediments; Short geomagnetic event

Indexed keywords

BRUNHES CHRON; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MATUYAMA CHRON; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032962182     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00185-0     Document Type: Article

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