Sequence stratigraphy in the context of rapid regional uplift and high-amplitude glacio-eustatic changes: The Pleistocene Cutro Terrace (Calabria, southern Italy)

Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 442-477

  Zecchin, Massimo ^a   Civile, Dario ^a   Caffau, Mauro ^a   Sturiale, Giovanni ^b   Roda, Cesare ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crotone; Glacio eustasy; Marine terrace; Pleistocene; Small scale cycles; Stratal architecture

Indexed keywords

CROTONE; EUSTASY; MARINE TERRACE; PLEISTOCENE; SMALL-SCALE CYCLES; STRATAL ARCHITECTURE;

ARCHITECTURE; DEPOSITS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL CONSERVATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

LANDFORMS;

AMPLITUDE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GLACIOEUSTACY; HIGHSTAND; PLEISTOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE TERRACE; SYSTEMS TRACT; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE; UPLIFT;

CALABRIA; CROTONE; ITALY;

ALGAE;

EID: 77956462359     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01171.x     Document Type: Article

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