Palaeogeographic reconstruction of the 1.55 Ma synchronous isolation of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and Taiwan and inflow of the Kuroshio warm current

International Geology Review

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1369-1388

  Osozawa, Soichi ^a   Shinjo, Ryuichi ^b   Armid, Alroem ^c   Watanabe, Yasushi ^d   Horiguchi, Toshiaki ^e   Wakabayashi, John ^f  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c HALU OLEO UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^d GIS Okinawa Laboratory   (Japan)

^e Resources Investigation Consultants Co Ltd   (Japan)

^f CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1.55 Ma island separation; coral sea; endemic species; entrapment of detritus; island encircling 1.55 Ma marine sediments; Kuroshio current; mouths of major Chinese rivers; Okinawa Trough; phylogenetic tree; Ryukyu island arc

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CORAL REEF; DETRITUS; FAULT; GRABEN; ISLAND ARC; MARINE SEDIMENT; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL; SILTSTONE; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TREE;

EAST CHINA SEA; JAPAN; KOREA STRAIT; KUROSHIO CURRENT; OKINAWA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; RYUKYU ISLANDS; TAIWAN STRAIT; TSUSHIMA STRAIT;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84863952782     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2011.639954     Document Type: Review

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