Blockfields and blockstreams in the Ligurian Alps (Mount Beigua, Italy)

Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 193-204

  Firpo, Marco ^a   Guglielmin, Mauro ^b   Queirolo, Cristiano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blockfields; Blockstream; Italy; Liguria; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

LANDFORM EVOLUTION; PERIGLACIAL LANDFORM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LIGURIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33644772005     PISSN: 03919838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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