Late quaternary tephra layers along the Cilento coastline (southern Italy)

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 227-243

  Marciano, Roberta ^a   Munno, Rosalba ^a   Petrosino, Paola ^a   Santangelo, Nicoletta ^a   Santo, Antonio ^a   Villa, Igor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Campanian volcanoes; Cilento; distal tephra layers; Quaternary; southern Italy; Upper Middle Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CAMPANIAN VOLCANOES; CILENTO; DISTAL TEPHRA LAYERS; QUATERNARY; SOUTHERN ITALY; UPPER-MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE;

LANDFORMS;

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; EMPLACEMENT; IGNIMBRITE; LITHIC FRAGMENT; PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC GLASS;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; CILENTO; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SALERNO; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 53949109822     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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