" Punishment for the Sinner": Holocene episodic subsidence and steady tectonic motion at ancient Sybaris (Calabria, southern Italy)

Quaternary International

Volumn 232, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 56-70

  Ferranti, Luigi ^a   Pagliarulo, Rossella ^b   Antonioli, Fabrizio ^c   Randisi, Andrea ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c ENEA   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; ARCHAEOLOGY; BOREHOLE; GLACIOISOSTASY; GLACIOTECTONICS; MORPHOSTRUCTURE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

CALABRIA; ITALY;

EID: 79851492688     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.07.014     Document Type: Article

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