High resolution chronology for late miocene mediterranean stratigraphic events

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-104

  Sprovieri, Rodolfo ^a   Di Stefano, Enrico ^a   Sprovieri, Mario ^a  

^a Department of Geology ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Calcareous plankton; Chronology; Cyclostratigraphy; Late Miocene; Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE; TORTONIAN;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0030454984     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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