Relationships between high-magnitude relative sea-level changes and filling of a coarse-grained submarine canyon (Pleistocene, Ionian Calabria, Southern Italy)

Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1030-1064

  Zecchin, Massimo ^a   Caffau, Mauro ^a   Roda, Cesare ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Canyon fill; Crotone; Density flow deposits; Pleistocene; Regional uplift; Sea level changes

Indexed keywords

CANYON FILL; CROTONE; DENSITY-FLOW DEPOSITS; PLEISTOCENE; REGIONAL UPLIFT; SEALEVEL CHANGE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; SANDSTONE; SUBMARINES;

DEPOSITS;

BIVALVE; CANYON; FACIES ANALYSIS; FOREARC BASIN; GASTROPOD; GLACIOEUSTACY; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SUBMARINE CANYON; UPLIFT;

CALABRIA; CROTONE BASIN; ITALY;

BIVALVIA; GASTROPODA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 79956008675     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01194.x     Document Type: Article

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