Mode of vertical crustal movements during the Late Quaternary in Kyushu, Japan, deduced from heights of ancient shorelines

Tectonophysics

Volumn 302, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 9-22

  Shimoyama, Shoichi ^a   Kinoshita, Hiroko ^a   Miyahara, Momo ^a   Tanaka, Yukari ^c   Ichihara, Toshihiko ^b   Takemura, Keiji ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kyushu; Late Quaternary; Marine top; Tephrostratigraphy; The Saeki Sendai Subsiding Axis; Vertical crustal movement; Volcanic events

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; QUATERNARY; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0033557929     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00280-7     Document Type: Article

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