Reassessing the biostratigraphy and the paleobathymetry of the gonfolite lombarda group in the como area (Northern Italy)

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-49

  Tremolada, Fabrizio ^a   Guasti, Elisa ^b   Scardia, Giancarlo ^c   Carcano, Cipriano ^d   Rogledi, Sergio ^e   Sciunnach, Dario ^f  

^a RPS   (United Kingdom)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d Burren Resources Petroleum   (United Kingdom)

^e ENI S P A   (Italy)

^f Regione Lombardia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Calcareous nannofossils; Cenozoic; Foraminifers; Gonfolite lombarda group; Italy; Southern alps

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALCRETE; CONGLOMERATE; MIOCENE; MUDSTONE; NANOFOSSIL; OLIGOCENE; OUTCROP; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; TYPE LOCALITY;

ALPS; COMO; ITALY; LOMBARDY;

FORAMINIFERA; SPHENOLITHUS; TRIQUETRORHABDULUS;

EID: 77952382053     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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