Depositional age and triggering event of turbidites in the western Kumano Trough, central Japan during the last ca. 100 years

Marine Geology

Volumn 271, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 225-235

  Shirai, Masaaki ^a   Omura, Akiko ^a   Wakabayashi, Toru ^a   Uchida, Jun ichi ^b   Ogami, Takashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OYO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cs 137 chronology; depositional process; hemipelagite; Kumano Trough; natural disaster; turbidite

Indexed keywords

19TH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; BULK DENSITY; GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HEAVY RAINS; HEMIPELAGIC SEDIMENTS; MASS ACCUMULATION RATES; MICROFOSSILS; MIXING EFFECTS; NATURAL DISASTERS; SAND GRAINS; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

CESIUM; DAMS; DEBRIS; FALLOUT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADIOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TURBIDITY;

DISASTERS;

BULK DENSITY; CESIUM ISOTOPE; DAM FAILURE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FLOODING; FOREARC BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE; MICROFOSSIL; NATURAL DISASTER; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

JAPAN; KUMANO BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77950368009     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.02.015     Document Type: Article

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