Paleosol profiles in the Shiohama Formation of the Lower Cretaceous Kanmon Group, Southwest Japan and implications for sediment supply frequency

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1313-1324

  Horiuchi, Yu ^a   Hisada, Ken ichiro ^a   Lee, Yong Il ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Calcrete; Floodplain deposit; Kanmon Group; Lower Cretaceous; Paleosol; Shiohama Formation

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; CALCRETE; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FLOOD DEPOSIT; FLOODPLAIN; MICROSTRUCTURE; PALEOSOL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL PROFILE;

ASIA; CHUGOKU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; YAMAGUCHI [CHUGOKU];

EID: 70249135223     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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