The effects of differential subsidence and coastal topography on high-order transgressive-regressive cycles: Pliocene nearshore deposits of the Val d'Orcia Basin, Northern Apennines, Italy

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 202, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 677-701

  Ghinassi, Massimiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gilbert type delta; Nearshore deposits; Sequence stratigraphy; Shallow marine embayment; Shoal water delta; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; CYCLOTHEM; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; SHALLOW WATER; SUBSIDENCE; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; ORCIA VALLEY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

EID: 36148970493     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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