Temporal development of prograding beach-shoreface deposits: The Holocene of Kujukuri coastal plain, eastern Japan

Marine Geology

Volumn 198, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 191-207

  Tamura, Toru ^a   Masuda, Fujio ^a   Sakai, Tetsuya ^a   Fujiwara, Osamu ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Grain size distribution; Holocene; Prograding shoreface; Ravinement; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SEA LEVEL; STORMS;

TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT;

HYDROGEOLOGY;

BEACH; COASTAL PLAIN; HOLOCENE; PROGRADATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KUJUKURI COASTAL PLAIN;

EID: 0037594631     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00123-3     Document Type: Article

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