Late Pleistocene depositional cycles of the Lapis Tiburtinus travertine (Tivoli, Central Italy): Possible influence of climate and fault activity

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 299-308

  Faccenna, Claudio ^a   Soligo, Michele ^a   Billi, Andrea ^a   De Filippis, Luigi ^a   Funiciello, Renato ^a   Rossetti, Claudio ^a   Tuccimei, Paola ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

faults; paleoclimate; three dimensional methods; travertine; uranium series method

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CORRELATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EROSION; FAULT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; QUARRY; THERMAL SPRING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAVERTINE; URANIUM SERIES DATING; WATER TABLE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TIVOLI;

EID: 52949140179     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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