Tyrrhenian coastal deposits from Sardinia (Italy): A petrographic record of high sea levels and shifting climate belts during the last interglacial (isotopic substage 5e)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 133, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 1-25

  Kindler, P ^a   Davaud, E ^a   Strasser, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Eustacy; Late Pleistocene; Paleoclimatology; Sardinia; Sedimentary petrology; Tyrrhenian

Indexed keywords

COASTAL DEPOSIT; LAST INTERGLACIAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE STAGE 5; PALAEOCLIMATE; PETROGRAPHIC RECORD; PETROLOGY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA LEVEL CHANGES; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION;

ITALY, SARDINIA;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; MOLLUSCA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0030775394     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00028-X     Document Type: Article

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