Quaternary stratigraphy of distal tephra layers in the Mediterranean - An overview

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 21, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 31-50

  Narcisi, Biancamaria ^a   Vezzoli, Luigina ^b  

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deep sea sediments; Explosive volcanism; Mediterranean area; Quaternary; Tephrostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

QUATERNARY; STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0032860976     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(99)00006-5     Document Type: Article

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