Integrated stratigraphy of the Tortonian/Messinian boundary: The Pietrasecca composite section (central Apennines, Italy)

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 229-244

  Cosentino, Domenico ^a   Carboni, Maria Gabriella ^b   Cipollari, Paola ^a   Di Bella, Letizia ^b   Florindo, Fabio ^c   Laurenzi, Marinella Ada ^d   Sagnotti, Leonardo ^c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Central Apennines; Geochronology; Magnetostratigraphy; Tortonian Messinian boundary

Indexed keywords

AMAUROLITHUS; AMAUROLITHUS DELICATUS; AMAUROLITHUS PRIMUS; GLOBOROTALIA; TORTONIA;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; TORTONIAN/MESSINIAN BOUNDARY;

ITALY, APENNINES, PIETRASECCA;

EID: 0031405828     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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