Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Tremiti structural high (Central Adriatic Sea) from benthic foraminiferal assemblages

Geobios

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 729-742

  Di Bella, Letizia ^a   Casieri, Sara ^a   Carboni, Maria Gabriella ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Foraminifera; Late Quaternary; Paleoenvironmental reconstruction; Tremiti Islands (central Adriatic)

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; OUTFLOW; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHALLOW WATER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; WATER DEPTH;

ADRIATIC SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FOGGIA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PO DELTA; PUGLIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TREMITI ISLANDS; VENETO;

AMMONIA (FORAMINIFERAN); AMMONIA BECCARII; BULIMINA MARGINATA; CASSIDULINA CARINATA; ELPHIDIUM; FORAMINIFERA; QUINQUELOCULINA; TEXTULARIA;

EID: 56949093533     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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