Statistical analysis of bed-thickness variation in a Tortonian succession of biocalcarenitic tidal dunes, Amantea Basin, Calabria, southern Italy

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 179, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 195-224

  Longhitano, Sergio G ^a   Nemec, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Parasequences; Power law; Shelf embayment; Sublittoral strait; Tyrrhenian Sea

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

CALABRIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

TORTONIA;

EID: 24144496080     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.05.006     Document Type: Article

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