Late Matuyama climate forcing on sedimentation at the margin of the southern Alps (Italy)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 832-846

  Scardia, Giancarlo ^a   Donegana, Marta ^b   Muttoni, Giovanni ^c,d   Ravazzi, Cesare ^b   Vezzoli, Giovanni ^e  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d ALP Alpine Laboratory of Paleomagnetism   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FANS; ALPINE AREAS; ALPINE VALLEYS; CLIMATE FORCINGS; GEODYNAMIC SETTING; GLOBAL COOLING; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; LAKE FORMATION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; NORTHERN ITALY; PLEISTOCENE; PO PLAIN; PROGRADATION;

ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

ALLUVIAL FAN; CLIMATE FORCING; CORE ANALYSIS; FORELAND BASIN; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MATUYAMA CHRON; OROGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PETROGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION;

ITALY; NEW ZEALAND; PO PLAIN; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 77649340514     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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