Foraminiferal assemblages of the Bric della Muda laminites (Nizza Monferrato, Piedmont): Proxies of cyclic palaeoenvironmental changes in the early Messinian of Northwestern Italy

Geobios

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 281-290

  Violanti, Donata ^a   Gallo, Lorenzo Mariano ^b   Rizzi, Agostino ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b MUSEO REGIONALE DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

^c CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Early Messinian; Foraminifers; Northwestern Italy; Palaeoenvironment; Piedmont

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FORAMINIFERA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MESSINIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MONFERRATO; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BOLIVINA PSEUDOPLICATA; CHILOSTOMELLA OOLINA; DELLA; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBOBULIMINA AFFINIS; GLOBOROTALIA; HASTIGERINELLA DIGITATA;

EID: 34249781401     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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