Magnetostratigraphic dating of an intensification of glacial activity in the southern Italian Alps during Marine Isotope Stage 22

Quaternary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 161-173

  Muttoni, Giovanni ^a   Ravazzi, Cesare ^b,c   Breda, Marzia ^d   Pini, Roberta ^b,c   Laj, Carlo ^e   Kissel, Catherine ^e   Mazaud, Alain ^e   Garzanti, Eduardo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Alps; Ice ages; Magnetostratigraphy; Mammal biostratigraphy; Pleistocene; Po Plain; Vegetation cycles

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRAIDED RIVER; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LEFFE BASIN; LOMBARDY; PO BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33846346641     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.07.006     Document Type: Article

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