Submarine fan sequences of the lower Kazusa Group, a Plio-Pleistocene forearc basin fill in the Boso Peninsula, Japan

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 69-93

  Ito, Makoto ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forearc basin; Glacioeustasy; Sequence stratigraphy; Submarine fan

Indexed keywords

FOREARC BASIN; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE FAN;

JAPAN;

EID: 0344199874     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(98)00099-2     Document Type: Article

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