Sedimentary recycling, provenance and paleoweathering from chemistry and mineralogy of Mesozoic continental redbed mudrocks, Peloritani mountains, southern Italy

Geochemical Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 197-209

  Mongelli, Giovanni ^a   Critelli, Salvatore ^b   Perri, Francesco ^a   Sonnino, Maurizio ^b   Perrone, Vincenzo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mesozoic continental redbeds; Mudrocks; Paleoweathering; Provenance; Recycling; Southern Italy

Indexed keywords

MESOZOIC; MUDSTONE; RED BED; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MESSINA [SICILY]; PELORITANI MOUNTAINS; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33645134178     PISSN: 00167002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2343/geochemj.40.197     Document Type: Article

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