Paleogene and Plio-Pleistocene basin formation around northwestern Kyushu, Japan

Island Arc

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-65

  Itoh, Yasuto ^a,b,c   Matsuoka, Kazumi ^a,b,c   Takemura, Keiji ^a,b,c  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basin formation; Northwestern Kyushu; Paleogene; Plio Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

JAPAN;

EID: 0033066181     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1738.1999.00223.x     Document Type: Article

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