Sequence response to syndepositional regional uplift: Insights from high-resolution sequence stratigraphy of late Early Pleistocene strata, Periadriatic Basin, central Italy

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 164, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 283-309

  Cantalamessa, Gino ^a   Di Celma, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cyclostratigraphy; High frequency sea level changes; Pleistocene; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BASIN FILL; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SYNSEDIMENTARY TECTONICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MARCHE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 1442338384     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2003.11.003     Document Type: Article

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