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Rates of tafoni weathering on uplifted shore platforms in Nojima‐Zaki, Boso Peninsula, Japan
Author(s) -
Matsukura Yukinori,
Matsuoka Norikazu
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
earth surface processes and landforms
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.294
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1096-9837
pISSN - 0197-9337
DOI - 10.1002/esp.3290160106
Subject(s) - shore , geology , weathering , peninsula , physical geography , geochemistry , geomorphology , oceanography , archaeology , geography
Many tafoni occur on the faces of marine cliffs on three uplifted shore platforms with different altitudes and with known ages of emergence. The mean value of the ten largest depths of tafoni, D (cm), was obtained and the period of their formation, t (years), was estimated. The relationship between the two variables was found to be D = 20·3 × (1−e −0.005t ).