Terrestrial laser scanner imaging reveals astronomical forcing in the Early Cretaceous of the Tethys realm

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 305, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 359-370

  Franceschi, Marco ^a   Preto, Nereo ^a   Hinnov, Linda A ^b   Huang, Chunju ^b   Rusciadelli, Giovanni ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Albian; Astrochronological time scale; Cyclostratigraphy; Limestone marl alternations; Terrestrial laser scanning

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PROCESS; ALBIAN; ASTROCHRONOLOGICAL TIME SCALE; ASTRONOMICAL FORCING; CENOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY; CENTRAL ITALY; CYCLICITY; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATA COLLECTION; EARLY CRETACEOUS; ECCENTRICITY CYCLE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LASER INTENSITIES; MESOZOIC; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNERS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; TIME-SCALES; TWO SECTION;

CLAY MINERALS; FERTILIZERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIMESTONE; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; SEEBECK EFFECT; SILICATE MINERALS; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; STRATIGRAPHY; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); TIME MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

ALBIAN; ASTRONOMY; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; CYCLICITY; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; IMAGING METHOD; LASER METHOD; LIMESTONE; MARL; MESOZOIC; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; REMOTE SENSING; TETHYS;

GUBBIO; ITALY; PERUGIA; UMBRIA;

EID: 79955113063     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.03.017     Document Type: Article

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