Micropalaeontological analyses of the Narzole core: Biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the late messinian and early zanclean of piedmont (Northwestern Italy)

Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 167-181

  Violanti, Donata ^a   Trenkwalder, Stefania ^a   Lozar, Francesca ^a   Gallo, Lorenzo Mariano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b MUSEO REGIONALE DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calcareous; Early zanclean; Foraminifers; Miocene pliocene boundary; Nannofossils; Ostracods; Tertiary piedmont basin

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MESSINIAN; MICROFOSSIL; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NANOFOSSIL; OSTRACOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PARATETHYS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ITALY; PIEDMONT BASIN;

AMAUROLITHUS PRIMUS; ARGILLOECIA; CIBICIDOIDES; CIBICIDOIDES ROBERTSONIANUS; DISCOASTERIDAE; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES; GLOBOROTALIA; GLOBOROTALIA SCITULA; HENRYHOWELLA; LOXOCORNICULINA DJAFAROVI; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA ACOSTAENSIS; OSTRACODA; PARLATORIA ZIZIPHI; SIPHONINA RETICULATA; SPHAEROIDINA BULLOIDES; SPHAEROIDINELLOPSIS; UVIGERINA PEREGRINA; XESTOLEBERIS; ZANCLEA;

EID: 77952198736     PISSN: 03757633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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