Megaturbidite deposits in the Holocene basin fill of Lake Como (Southern Alps, Italy)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 259, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 323-340

  Fanetti, Daniela ^a   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^b   Chapron, Emmanuel ^b   Sturm, Michael ^c   Vezzoli, Luigina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Debris flows; Deep lacustrine sedimentation; High resolution seismic profiling; Megaturbidites; Multibeam bathymetry; Slope failure

Indexed keywords

BASIN FILL; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORE ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TURBIDITE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAUBUNDEN; ITALY; LAKE COMO; LAKE SILS; LOMBARDY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 39849083028     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.10.014     Document Type: Article

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