Role of sea-level forced sedimentary processes on the distribution of organic carbon-rich marine sediments: A review of the Late Quaternary sapropels in the Mediterranean Sea

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 273, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 249-257

  Capozzi, Rossella ^a   Negri, Alessandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mediterranean Sea; Productivity; Sapropel; Sea level; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; QUATERNARY; SAPROPEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 60649101559     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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