Late quaternary sedimentary evolution of the Castellammare Gulf (North-Western Sicily offshore)

Bollettino della Societa Geologica Italiana

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-40

  Agate, Mauro ^a   Mancuso, Maria ^a   Lo Cicero, Giovanna ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Continental margin; Holocene; Late pleistocene; Offshore North Western Sicily; Sea level change; Seismic stratigraphy; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750393358     PISSN: 00378763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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