Basin formation at a contractional bend of a large transcurrent fault: Plio-Pleistocene subsidence of the Kobe and northern Osaka Basins, Japan

Tectonophysics

Volumn 321, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 327-341

  Itoh, Yasuto ^a   Takemura, Keiji ^b   Ishiyama, Tatsuya ^b   Tanaka, Yukari ^b   Iwaki, Hiromi ^c  

^a Osaka P   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronology; Osaka Group; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Stratigraphy; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MARGIN; BASIN EVOLUTION; FAULT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SUBSIDENCE;

JAPAN;

EID: 0033926410     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00072-X     Document Type: Article

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