Middle to late Pleistocene coastal deposits of Alghero, northwest Sardinia (Italy): Chronology and evolution

Quaternary International

Volumn 222, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 3-16

  Andreucci, Stefano ^a   Clemmensen, Lars B ^b   Murray, Andrew S ^c   Pascucci, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL SEDIMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; REGRESSION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; UNCONFORMITY;

ALGHERO; ITALY; SARDINIA; SASSARI;

EID: 77955056357     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.07.025     Document Type: Article

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