Cyclic changes in oxygenation based on foraminiferal microhabitats: Early-Middle Pleistocene, Lucania Basin (southern Italy)

Journal of Micropalaeontology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 81-95

  Stefanelli, Simona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; FORAMINIFERA; HABITAT QUALITY; PLEISTOCENE;

BASILICATA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

FORAMINIFERA; LUCANIA;

EID: 2542460516     PISSN: 0262821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jm.23.1.81     Document Type: Article

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