Provenance of detrital apatites from the upper Gonfolite Lombarda Group (Miocene, NW Italy)

GeoActa

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 43-56

  Fellin, Maria Giuditta ^a,b   Sciunnach, Dario ^c   Tunesi, Annalisa ^d   Andò, Sergio ^d   Garzanti, Eduardo ^d   Vezzoli, Giovanni ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Struttura Sistema Informativo Territoriale   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Detrital apatite fission tracks; Gonfolite Lombarda Group; Miocene; Sediment provenance; Southern Alps

Indexed keywords

APATITE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; MIOCENE; PROVENANCE;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33645790996     PISSN: 17218039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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