Sedimentation and tectonics in a steep shallow-marine depositional system: Stratigraphic arrangement of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Rometta Succession (NE Sicily, Italy)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-87

  di Stefano, Agata ^a   Longhitano, Sergio ^b   Smedile, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy and paleobathymetry; NE Sicily; Pliocene Pleistocene; Sedimentology; Tectonics and sedimentation

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHALLOW WATER; SUCCESSION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSGRESSION; UNCONFORMITY; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34147198114     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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