Early Pleistocene chronology of the Vrica section (Calabria, Italy)

Paleoceanography

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 797-812

  Lourens, L J ^a,d   Hilgen, F J ^a,d   Raffi, I ^b   Vergnaud Grazzini, C ^c  

^a Inst Earth Sci Budapestlaan 4 U   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0000432478     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96PA02691     Document Type: Article

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