Coastal barrier dune construction during sea-level highstands in MIS 3 and 5a on Tottori coast-line, Japan

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 308, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 492-501

  Tamura, Toru ^a,b   Kodama, Yoshinori ^c   Bateman, Mark D ^b   Saitoh, Yu ^d   Watanabe, Kazuaki ^a   Matsumoto, Dan ^a   Yamaguchi, Naofumi ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

East Asia; Ground penetrating radar; Japan Sea; Optically stimulated luminescence dating; Pleistocene; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DUNE; EXCAVATION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE; MORPHOLOGY; OUTCROP; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TEPHRA;

CHUGOKU; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; TOTTORI [CHUGOKU];

EID: 79960734386     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.054     Document Type: Article

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