Stratigraphic approach to geological mapping of the late quaternary volcanic island of Lipari (Aeolian archipelago, southern Italy)

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 464, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-32

  Lucchi, Federico ^a   Tranne, Claudio Antonio ^a   Rossi, Piermaria Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; DEPOSITS; EROSION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MAPPING; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; MARINE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS; SEDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EROSION; FAULTING; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; UNCONFORMITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC ISLAND;

ITALY; LIPARI ISLANDS; MESSINA [SICILY]; SICILY;

EID: 78650906351     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2464(01)     Document Type: Article

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