Provenance of sandstones from the Wakino Subgroup of the Lower Cretaceous Kanmon Group, northern Kyushu, Japan

Island Arc

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 128-144

  Asiedu, Daniel K ^a   Suzuki, Shigeyuki ^b   Shibata, Tsugio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bulk rock geochemistry; Heavy minerals; Mineral chemistry; Modal analysis; Provenance; Wakino Subgroup

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITOID; PETROGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SHALE; WEATHERING;

JAPAN;

EID: 0034079613     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1738.2000.00266.x     Document Type: Article

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