Stratigraphy of the Kazusa Group, Boso Peninsula: An expanded and highly-resolved marine sedimentary record from the Lower and Middle Pleistocene of central Japan

Quaternary International

Volumn 383, Issue , 2015, Pages 116-135

  Kazaoka, Osamu ^a   Suganuma, Yusuke ^b,c   Okada, Makoto ^d   Kameo, Koji ^e   Head, Martin J ^f   Yoshida, Takeshi ^a   Sugaya, Manami ^d   Kameyama, Shun ^a   Ogitsu, Itaru ^a   Nirei, Hisashi ^g   Aida, Nobuyuki ^h   Kumai, Hisao ⁱ  

^a Research Institute of Environmental Geology   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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

^h SHUMEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Chiba composite section; Lower Middle Pleistocene GSSP; Magnetostratigraphy; Marine sediments; Tephrostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; STRATOTYPE;

BOSO PENINSULA; CHIBA; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO;

EID: 84944515159     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.02.065     Document Type: Article

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