Advanced micro-XRF method to separate sedimentary rhythms and event layers in sediments: Its application to lacustrine sediment from Lake Suigetsu, Japan

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 259-271

  Katsuta, Nagayoshi ^a   Takano, Masao ^a   Kawakami, Shin Ichi ^b   Togami, Shoji ^a   Fukusawa, Hitoshi ^c   Kumazawa, Mineo ^a   Yasuda, Yoshinori ^d  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

Author keywords

High resolution elemental profiles; Lake Suigetsu; Lamination Tracer; Scanning X ray analytical microscope; Sompi event analysis

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; EVENT STRATIGRAPHY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAMINATION; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TRACE ELEMENT; TRACER; TURBIDITE; VOLCANIC ASH; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; FUKUI; HONSHU; JAPAN; LAKE SUIGETSU;

EID: 33846430950     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-006-9028-3     Document Type: Article

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