Rapid subsidence of the Kikai Seamount inferred from drowned Pleistocene coral limestone: Implication for subduction of the Amami Plateau, northern Philippine Sea

Marine Geology

Volumn 247, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 35-45

  Nakazawa, Tsutomu ^a   Nishimura, Akira ^a   Iryu, Yasufumi ^b   Yamada, Tsutomu ^c   Shibasaki, Hiroshi ^c   Shiokawa, Satoshi ^c  

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

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amami Plateau; Kikai Seamount; northern Philippine Sea; Pleistocene; rapid subsidence; shallow water carbonates; subduction

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK CORES; SUBDUCTION DIRECTION;

CARBONATES; LIMESTONE; LITHOLOGY; SEAWATER;

SUBSIDENCE;

CARBONATE ROCK; CORAL; ISLAND ARC; LIMESTONE; LITHOLOGY; MIOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEAMOUNT; SHALLOW WATER; SUBDUCTION; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS; VOLCANISM; WATER DEPTH;

AMAMI PLATEAU; ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KIKAI SEAMOUNT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA; RYUKYU ISLANDS; WEST PHILIPPINE BASIN;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 37249054941     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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