Astronomic forcing on the planktonic foraminifera assemblage in the Piacenzian Punta Piccola section (southern Italy)

Paleoceanography

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Sprovieri, Rodolfo ^a   Sprovieri, Mario ^b   Caruso, Antonio ^a,c   Pelosi, Nicola ^b   Bonomo, Sergio ^a   Ferraro, Luciana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GLACIATION; MARINE SEDIMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLIOCENE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

COPEPODA; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA ATLANTICA;

EID: 34548040974     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006PA001268     Document Type: Article

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