Change in the thickness of the warm Tsushima Current at the initiation of its flow into the Sea of Japan

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 152, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 305-318

  Kitamura, Akihisa ^a   Matsui, Hiroyuki ^b   Oda, Motoyoshi ^c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early Pleistocene; Molluscan fossils; Planktonic foraminifera; Sea of Japan; Sea level rise; Tsushima Current

Indexed keywords

CURRENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY;

SEA OF JAPAN;

FORAMINIFERA; MOLLUSCA; OMMA;

EID: 0033199290     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(99)00047-4     Document Type: Article

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