Sea-level changes during the last 41,000 years in the outer shelf of the southern Tyrrhenian Sea: Evidence from benthic foraminifera and seismostratigraphic analysis

Quaternary International

Volumn 232, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 122-131

  Caruso, Antonio ^a   Cosentino, Claudia ^a   Pierre, Catherine ^b   Sulli, Attilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 79851515134     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.07.034     Document Type: Article

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