Possible tsunami signatures from an integrated study in the Augusta Bay offshore (Eastern Sicily-Italy)

Marine Geology

Volumn 281, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Smedile, A ^a   De Martini, P M ^a   Pantosti, D ^a   Bellucci, L ^b   Del Carlo, P ^c   Gasperini, L ^b   Pirrotta, C ^d   Polonia, A ^b   Boschi, E ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eastern Sicily; Foraminifera; Offshore core; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC BIOTA; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA ASSEMBLAGE; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EASTERN SICILY; FINE SEDIMENTS; FORAMINIFERA; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; HIGH CONCENTRATION; ISOTOPIC DATING; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; OFFSHORE CORE; P. OCEANICA; POSIDONIA OCEANICA; SEA FLOOR; SEAWARD DISPLACEMENT; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; XRAY IMAGING;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

TSUNAMIS;

BENTHOS; EPIPHYTE; FORAMINIFERA; GEOPHYSICS; GRAIN SIZE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENT CORE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TSUNAMI;

AUGUSTA BAY; ITALY; SICILY; SIRACUSA;

FORAMINIFERA; POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 79952817061     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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