The impact of Late Quaternary glacio-eustasy and tectonics on sequence development: Evidence from both uplifting and subsiding settings in Italy

Terra Nova

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 324-329

  Zecchin, Massimo ^a   Caffau, Mauro ^a   Tosi, Luigi ^b   Civile, Dario ^a   Brancolini, Giuliano ^b   Rizzetto, Federica ^b   Roda, Cesare ^c  

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

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLICITY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GLACIOEUSTACY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PERIODICITY; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHALLOW WATER; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSGRESSION; UPLIFT;

ITALY;

EID: 77956471632     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2010.00953.x     Document Type: Article

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