Middle and Late Jurassic carbon stable-isotope stratigraphy and radiolarite sedimentation of the Umbria-Marche Basin (Central Italy)

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 811-844

  Bartolini, Annachiara ^a,b   Baumgartner, Peter O ^b   Hunziker, Johannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon stable isotope stratigraphy; Carbonate platforms; Middle Late Jurassic; Paleoclimate; Radiolarites; Umbria Marche Sabina Apennines

Indexed keywords

POSIDONIA; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS); SABINA;

CARBON; CARBONATE PLATFORM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; JURASSIC; PALAEOCLIMATE; RADIOLARITE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ITALY, MARCHE; ITALY, UMBRIA;

EID: 0030467077     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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