High-frequency cycles within Pleistocene forced-regressive conglomerate wedges (Bradanic area, southern Italy) filling collapse scars

Sedimentology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 939-958

  Massari, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WEDGE; COLLAPSE SCAR; CONGLOMERATE; PLEISTOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TILTING;

ITALY, BRADANIC TROUGH;

EID: 0031450417     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1997.d01-56.x     Document Type: Article

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