Intra-shoreface erosion in response to rapid sea-level fall: Depositional record of a tectonically uplifted strand plain, Pacific coast of Japan

Sedimentology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1149-1162

  Tamura, Toru ^a   Nanayama, Futoshi ^a   Saito, Yoshiki ^a   Murakami, Fumitoshi ^a   Nakashima, Rei ^a   Watanabe, Kazuaki ^a  

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

Author keywords

AMS radiocarbon dating; Earthquake; Forced regression; Longshore bar; Sequence stratigraphy; Surf zone

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; HOLOCENE; LONGSHORE TRANSPORT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

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

EID: 34548781872     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00876.x     Document Type: Article

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