Benthic foraminiferal assemblages as tools for paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the early-middle Pleistocene Montalbano Jonico composite section;Ricostruzione paleoambientale della successione infra e mesopleistocenica di Montalbano Jonico sulla base delle associazioni a foraminiferi bentonici

Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 281-299

  Stefanelli, Simona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basilicata (S. Italy); Benthic foraminifera; Early middle Pleistocene cyclicity; Hierarchical cluster analysis; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PLEISTOCENE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BASILICATA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 1542348378     PISSN: 03757633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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