Late Quaternary climatic evolution of the Arno coastal plain (Western Tuscany, Italy) from subsurface data

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 202, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 211-229

  Aguzzi, Margherita ^a   Amorosi, Alessandro ^a   Colalongo, Maria Luisa ^a   Lucchi, Marianna Ricci ^a   Rossi, Veronica ^a   Sarti, Giovanni ^b   Vaiani, Stefano Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arno River; Incised valley system; Late Quaternary stratigraphy; Micropalaeontology; Pollen; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

COASTAL PLAIN; FACIES; FORAMINIFERA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HIGHSTAND; INCISED VALLEY; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

ARNO RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY; TYRRHENIAN COAST;

FORAMINIFERA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 33947247792     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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