Sedimentary processes and depositional environments of a continuous marine succession across the Lower-Middle Pleistocene boundary: Kokumoto Formation, Kazusa Group, central Japan

Quaternary International

Volumn 397, Issue , 2016, Pages 3-15

  Nishida, Naohisa ^a   Kazaoka, Osamu ^b   Izumi, Kentaro ^c   Suganuma, Yusuke ^d,e   Okada, Makoto ^f   Yoshida, Takeshi ^b   Ogitsu, Itaru ^b   Nakazato, Hiroomi ^g   Kameyama, Shun ^b   Kagawa, Atsushi ^b   Morisaki, Masaaki ^b   Nirei, Hisashi ^h  

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

^b Research Institute of Environmental Geology   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^e GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^f IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RURAL ENGINEERING   (Japan)

^h Japan Branch of Geoscience for Environmental Management International Union of Geological Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kazusa fore arc basin; Kokumoto Formation; Lower Middle Pleistocene boundary; Sedimentary facies; Trace fossils

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; FOREARC BASIN; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRACE FOSSIL;

JAPAN;

EID: 84944470703     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.06.045     Document Type: Article

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