Palaeoenvironmental control on sediment composition and provenance in the late Quaternary deltaic successions: A case study from the Po delta area (Northern Italy)

Geological Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 591-612

  Curzi, Pietro Vittorio ^a   Dinelli, Enrico ^a   Lucchi, Marianna Ricci ^a   Vaiani, Stefano Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Late Quaternary; Micropalaeontology; Northern Italy; Palaeoenvironment; Sediment provenance; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; LITHOFACIES; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHORELINE CHANGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PO DELTA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VENETO;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 33751098764     PISSN: 00721050     EISSN: 10991034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gj.1060     Document Type: Article

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