Gravity flow and submarine slide deposits in the Miocene Ushikiri Formation, Eastern Shimane, Japan

Tetsuya Sakai; Michiko Maruyama

doi:10.4096/jssj.72.2

Journal of the Sedimentological Society of Japan

Online ISSN : 1882-9457
Print ISSN : 1342-310X
ISSN-L : 1342-310X

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Gravity flow and submarine slide deposits in the Miocene Ushikiri Formation, Eastern Shimane, Japan

Tetsuya Sakai, Michiko Maruyama

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2013 Volume 72 Issue 1 Pages 2

DOI https://doi.org/10.4096/jssj.72.2

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The Miocene Ushikiri Formation, a 14 Ma submarine slope deposit, contains sediment gravity flow and slide deposits. Some submarine slides may have been triggered by turbidity currents.

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