The relationship between shellbed type and sequence architecture: examples from Japan and New Zealand

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 109-127

  Kondo, Yasuo ^a   Abbott, Stephen T ^b   Kitamura, Akihisa ^c   Kamp, Peter J J ^d   Naish, Tim R ^e   Kamataki, Takanobu ^f   Saul, Gordon S ^e  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Northern Territory Geological Survey   (Australia)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^e JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fossil assemblage; Palaeoecology; Plio Pleistocene; Sequence stratigraphy; Shellbed; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TAPHONOMY;

JAPAN; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0345329606     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(98)00101-8     Document Type: Article

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