Integrated stratigraphy from the Contrada Fornazzo section, Monte Inici, Western Sicily, Italy: Proposed G.S.S.P. for the Basal boundary of the Tithonian stage

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 329-338

  Pavia, Giulio ^a   Lanza, Roberto ^a   Lozar, Francesca ^a   Martire, Luca ^a   Olóriz, Federico ^b   Zanella, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammonites; Calcareous nannofossils; G.S.S.P.; Integrated stratigraphy; Magnetostratigraphy; Tithonian; Upper Jurassic; Western Sicily

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY; JURASSIC; STRATIGRAPHY; STRATOTYPE; TITHONIAN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MONTE INICI; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRAPANI;

AMMONOIDEA; TITHONIA;

EID: 2942682889     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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