Late Eocene impact-induced climate and hydrological changes: Evidence from the Massignano global stratotype section and point (central Italy)

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 452, Issue , 2009, Pages 97-118

  Coccioni, Rodolfo ^a   Frontalini, Fabrizio ^a   Spezzaferri, Silvia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central Italy; Climate changes; Hydrological changes; Impacts; Late Eocene; Massignano; Planktonic foraminifera

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COSMOLOGY; GAS HYDRATES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSES; IRIDIUM; WAREHOUSES;

CENTRAL ITALY; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGES; IMPACTS; LATE EOCENE; MASSIGNANO; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CRATER; DATA INTERPRETATION; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; IMPACT; STRATIFICATION; STRATOTYPE; WATER MASS;

ASCOLI PICENO; CHESAPEAKE BAY; ITALY; MARCHE; MASSIGNANO; POPIGAI CRATER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED STATES;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 74949143742     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2452(07)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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