Sourceland controls on the composition of beach and fluvial sand of the northern Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria, Italy: Implications for actualistic petrofacies

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 81-97

  Le Pera, Emilia ^a   Critelli, Salvatore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actualistic petrofacies; Calabria; Fluvial and beach; Sand; Tyrrhenian Sea

Indexed keywords

BEACH SEDIMENT; DEEP SEA SEDIMENT; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; FLUVIAL SEDIMENT; PROVENANCE; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ITALY, CALABRIA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 0030819980     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(96)00078-4     Document Type: Article

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