Climatic cycles as expressed in sediments of the PROMESSI borehole PRAD1-2, central Adriatic, for the last 370 ka: 1. Integrated stratigraphy

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Piva, Andrea ^a   Asioli, Alessandra ^a   Schneider, Ralph R ^b   Trincardi, Fabio ^a   Andersen, Nils ^b   Colmenero Hidalgo, Elena ^c   Dennielou, Bernard ^d   Flores, Jose Abel ^c   Vigliotti, Luigi ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^d IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Adriatic Sea; D O events; Foraminifera; Late quaternary; Oxygen isotope stratigraphy; Sapropel stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949115812     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GC001713     Document Type: Article

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