Late Paleozoic brachiopod faunas of the South Kitakami Belt, northeast Japan, and their paleobiogeographic and tectonic implications

Island Arc

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 287-301

  Tazawa, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brachiopods; Late paleozoic; North China; Paleobiogeography; South Kitakami belt; Strike slip model; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CHINA; JAPAN;

EID: 0036905652     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1738.2002.00369.x     Document Type: Article

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