The Crotone series: A synthesis and new data

Quaternary International

Volumn 219, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 121-133

  Suc, Jean Pierre ^a   Combourieu Nebout, Nathalie ^b   Seret, Guy ^c   Popescu, Speranta Maria ^d   Klotz, Stefan ^e   Gautier, François ^f   Clauzon, Georges ^g   Westgate, John ^h   Insinga, Donatella ⁱ   Sandhu, Amanjit S ^h  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f Université Paul Cézanne ^*  (France)

^g CEREGE   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁱ CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BOREHOLE; CHRONOLOGY; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; FIELD SURVEY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MINERALOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POLLEN; SAPROPEL; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

CALABRIA; CROTONE; ITALY;

EID: 77952951705     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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