Earliest Zanclean age for the Colombacci and uppermost Di Tetto formations of the "latest Messinian" northern Apennines: New palaeoenvironmental data from the Maccarone section (Marche Province, Italy)

Geobios

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 359-373

  Popescu, Speranta Maria ^a   Melinte, Mihaela Carmen ^b   Suc, Jean Pierre ^a   Clauzon, Georges ^c   Quillévéré, Frédéric ^a   Süto Szentai, Maria ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEO ECOLOGY GEOECOMAR   (Romania)

^c CEREGE   (France)

^d Natural History Collection of Komlo   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Calcareous nannofossils; Lago Mare; Marine dinoflagellate cysts; Zanclean transgression

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EUSTACY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MESSINIAN; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TRANSGRESSION;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MARCHE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CERATOLITHUS; DINOPHYCEAE; FORAMINIFERA; PARATETHYS; ZANCLEA;

EID: 34249719544     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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