The Calabrian stage, Pleistocene highstand in Malta: A new marker for unravelling the late neogene and quaternary history of the Islands

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 913-926

  Pedley, Martyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MIGRATION; BASE LINE; CORRELATION SCHEME; GRABEN SYSTEMS; LATE MIOCENE; LATE NEOGENE; MARINE ABRASION; MARINE DEPOSITS; MARINE EROSION; MESSINIAN; NORTH AFRICA; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; PRINCIPAL AGENTS; QUATERNARY DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS; TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS; WEATHERING PROCESS;

ANIMALS; DEFORMATION; EROSION; WEATHERING;

DEPOSITS;

CALABRIAN; DEFORMATION; EROSION; EUSTACY; FOSSIL RECORD; GRABEN; MESSINIAN; NEOGENE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

MALTA;

ANIMALIA; EMILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79959522810     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-080     Document Type: Article

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