Chronology of the Lower-Middle Pleistocene succession of the south-western part of the Crotone Basin (Calabria, Southern Italy)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1185-1200

  Capraro, L ^a   Massari, F ^a   Rio, D ^a   Fornaciari, E ^a   Backman, J ^a   Channell, J E T ^a   Macri P ^a,b   Prosser, G ^a   Speranza, F ^b  

^a Department of Geosciences ^*  (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronostratigraphy; Pleistocene; Southern Italy

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DIACHRONEITY; DIFFERENTIAL SUBSIDENCE; EUSTASY; ISOTOPIC DATA; MARINE DEPOSITS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; OXYGEN ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE STRATIGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SHALLOW-WATER; SHORT DISTANCES; SOUTHERN ITALY; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE; SYN-SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; TECTONICS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYCLOTHEM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NANOFOSSIL; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SHALLOW WATER; SUCCESSION;

CALABRIA; CROTONE BASIN; ITALY;

EID: 79955719869     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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