Paleontological and sedimentological record in Pliocene distal alluvial fan deposits at Cava Toppetti (Todi, Central Italy)

Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 5-22

  Abbazzi, Laura ^a   Albianelli, Andrea ^a   Ambrosetti, Pierluigi ^b,e   Argenti, Patrizia ^b,e   Basilici, Giorgio ^c   Bertini, Adele ^a   Gentili, Sergio ^b,e   Masini, Federico ^d,f   Napoleone, Giovanni ^a   Pontini, Maria Rita ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^e Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra   (Italy)

^f Dipartimento di Geologia e Geodesia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Late Pliocene; Magnetostratigraphy; Mammal fauna; Palynology; Sedimentology; Taphonomy; Tiberino Basin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CERVIDAE; MAMMALIA; NAJA; PSEUDODAMA; PTERIDACEAE; PTERIDOPHYTA;

ALLUVIAL FAN; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALYNOLOGY; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TAPHONOMY;

ITALY;

EID: 0031396716     PISSN: 03757633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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