A potential early middle Pleistocene tephrostratotype for the Mediterranean basin: The Vallo Di Diano, Campania, Italy

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 21, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 1-15

  Karner, D B ^a   Juvigne, E ^b   Brancaccio, L ^c   Cinque, A ^c   Russo Ermolli, E ^c   Santangelo, N ^c   Bernasconi, S ^d   Lirer, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar geochronology; Campania; Geomorphology; Italy; Middle Pleistocene; Oxygen isotopes; Paleoclimate; Pollen; Stratigraphy; Tephrochronology; Volcano

Indexed keywords

PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT CORE; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

ITALY;

ROMAN;

EID: 0032853583     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(99)00004-1     Document Type: Article

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