Basin evolution within the Kitakami Massif, northeast Japan: Relationship between sedimentation, tectonics and volcanism in an incipient Neogene continental back-arc basin

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 133, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 7-26

  Yagishita, K ^a   Komori, K ^b  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Board of Education   (Japan)

Author keywords

Back arc basin; Facies analyses; Lahars; Lucustrine deposits; Paleocurrent analyses; Tectonism; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; BASIN EVOLUTION; FACIES ANALYSIS; NEOGENE; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONICS; VOLCANISM;

JAPAN;

EID: 0033948481     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(00)00025-7     Document Type: Article

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