Onset of temperate carbonate sedimentation during transgression in a low-energy siliciclastic embayment (Pliocene of the Val d'Orcia Basin, Tuscany, Italy)

Facies

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 353-368

  Nalin, Ronald ^a   Ghinassi, Massimiliano ^b   Basso, Daniela ^c  

^a Geoscience Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embayment; Mediterranean; Middle Pliocene; Rhodalgal; Temperate carbonates; Val d'Orcia Basin

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL SEDIMENT; FACIES; PLIOCENE; RED ALGA; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGRESSION;

ITALY; TUSCANY;

RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 77953873096     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-010-0211-7     Document Type: Article

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