The record of tidal cycles in mixed silici-bioclastic deposits: Examples from small Plio-Pleistocene peripheral basins of the microtidal Central Mediterranean Sea

Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 691-719

  Longhitano, Sergio G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biocalcarenites; Cyclicity; Environment; Microtidal; Pliocene Pleistocene; Silici; Southern Italy; Tidal; Tidalites

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952582372     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01179.x     Document Type: Article

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