The Basis of the Plio-Pleistocene Boundary in Japan

Abstract

From May 22 to June 4, 1972, the International Colloquium of the Problem "The Boundary between Neogene and Quaternary" was held in Kishinev and Tbilisi of the USSR under auspices of the INQUA Subcommission on the Pliocene-Pleistocene Boundary. In compliance with the request from Professor K.V. N_IKIFOROVA, Geological Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the Chairman of this Subcommission, the authors have sent to this Colloquium a paper entitled "The basis of the Plio-Pleistocene boundary in Japan"....