An unconformity in the early Miocene syn‐rifting succession, northern Noto Peninsula, Japan: Evidence for short‐term uplifting precedent to the rapid opening of the Japan Sea

• Published in: Island Arc
• Main Authors: Kano, Kazuhiko, Yoshikawa, Toshiyuki, Yanagisawa, Yukio, Ogasawara, Kenshiro, Danhara, Tohru
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2002
• Subjects: Sakhalin
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1738.2002.00363.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1440-1738.2002.00363.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1440-1738.2002.00363.x

Abstract The present paper describes the newly discovered early Miocene unconformity in the northern Noto Peninsula, on the Japan Sea side, central Japan. The unconformity marks the boundary between an early Miocene non‐marine to marine succession and a more extensive, late early to early middle Mio...