Paleogeographic and paleodrainage changes during Pleistocene glaciations (Po Plain, Northern Italy)

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 25-48

  Garzanti, Eduardo ^a   Vezzoli, Giovanni ^a   Andò, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpine glaciations; Climate changes; Drainage changes; Eustatic changes; Heavy minerals; Marine Isotope Stages; Quaternary stratigraphy; Sand petrography; Similarity analysis

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; BASIN EVOLUTION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DRAINAGE BASIN; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FORELAND BASIN; GLACIATION; HEAVY MINERAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ITALY; PO PLAIN;

EID: 79951577868     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.11.004     Document Type: Review

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