Stratigraphic review of Eocene to Oligocene successions along the eastern Japan Sea: Implication for early opening of the Japan Sea

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-32

  Kano, Kazuhiko ^a   Uto, Kozo ^a   Ohguchi, Takeshi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Back arc opening; Japan Sea; Marine transgression; Rifting; thermal doming

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; BACKARC BASIN; EOCENE; FOREARC BASIN; ISLAND ARC; OLIGOCENE; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SHALLOW WATER; SUBSIDENCE; TRANSGRESSION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 33947692821     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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