Preservation and grain-size trends of Holocene wave-dominated facies successions in eastern Japan: Implications for high-resolution sequence stratigraphic analysis

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 718-729

  Tamura, Toru ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSENING; DEPOSITS; OSTWALD RIPENING; STRATIGRAPHY;

BIMODAL GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; GRAIN SIZE TREND; PRESERVATION POTENTIAL; QUALITATIVE CHANGES; REGRESSIVE DEPOSITS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SHORT TIME SCALE; UNIMODAL DISTRIBUTION;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

FACIES; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; WAVE ACTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 5044234492     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/021304740718     Document Type: Article

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