Tephrochronology in faulted Middle Pleistocene tephra layer in the Val d'Agri area (Southern Italy)

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 1029-1040

  D'Addezio, Giuliana ^a   Karner, Daniel B ^b   Burrato, Pierfrancesco ^a   Insinga, Donatella ^d   Maschio, Laura ^c   Ferranti, Luigi ^c   Renne, Paul R ^e,f  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar dating; Southern Italy; Tephra layer

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASIN EVOLUTION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; PLEISTOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

AGRI VALLEY; APENNINES; BASILICATA; CAMPANIA [ITALY]; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

DELLA;

EID: 34247330110     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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