Palaeoenvironmental and palaeogeographical implications of modern Macaronichnus segregatis-like traces in foreshore sediments on the Pacific coast of central Japan

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 252, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 497-502

  Seike, Koji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beach; Foreshore; Ichnology; Macaronichnus segregatis; Shoreline orientation; Trace fossil

Indexed keywords

BEACH; COASTAL SEDIMENT; ICHNOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POLYCHAETE; SHORELINE; TRACE FOSSIL;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN];

ANIMALIA; EUZONUS; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 34547749517     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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