The Piànico tephra: An Early Middle Pleistocene record of intraplate volcanism in the Mediterranean

Terra Nova

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 176-186

  Pinti, Daniele L ^a   Quidelleur, Xavier ^a   Lahitte, Pierre ^a   Aznar, Cyril ^a   Chiesa, Sergio ^b   Gillot, Pierre Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PLEISTOCENE; TEPHRA; VOLCANISM;

ITALY;

EID: 0038607704     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2003.00478.x     Document Type: Article

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