Alluvial terraces on the Ionian coast of northern Calabria, southern Italy: Implications for tectonic and sea level controls

Geomorphology

Volumn 106, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 165-179

  Robustelli, Gaetano ^a   Lucà, Federica ^a   Corbi, Fabio ^b   Pelle, Teresa ^a   Dramis, Francesco ^b   Fubelli, Giandomenico ^b   Scarciglia, Fabio ^a   Muto, Francesco ^a   Cugliari, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alluvial terraces; Morphostratigraphic correlations; Northern Calabria; Sea level change; Sedimentary environment; Soil development; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GRAVEL BED STREAM; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SOIL DEGRADATION; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

ALBANIA; CALABRIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; IONIAN COAST; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 62649113858     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.12.010     Document Type: Review

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