Upper Cretaceous ramp limestones from the Sorrento Peninsula (southern Apennines, Italy): Micro- and macrofossil associations and their significance in the depositional sequences

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 132, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 89-123

  Carannante, G ^a   Ruberti, D ^b   Sirna, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbonate open shelf; Depositional cycles; Foraminifers; Late Cretaceous; Rudists

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE RAMP; CRETACEOUS; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; FORAMINIFERA; SEDIMENTATION;

ITALY;

EID: 0034052715     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(00)00004-X     Document Type: Article

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