New morphostratigraphic and chronological constraints for the Quaternary paleosurfaces of the Molise Apennine (southern Italy)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-26

  Aucelli, Pietro ^a   Amato, Vincenzo ^b   Cesarano, Massimo ^b   Pappone, Gerardo ^a   Rosskopf, Carmen ^b   Ermolli, Elda ^c,d   Scarciglia, Fabio ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Italy; Molise Apennine; morphostratigraphy; paleopedology; paleosurfaces; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

ARGON ISOTOPE; BEDROCK; EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INTRAMONTANE BASIN; PALEOSURFACE; PEDOLOGY; QUATERNARY; RIVER SYSTEM; STRATIGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

APENNINES; ITALY; MOLISE;

EID: 79959768271     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10096-011-0002-2     Document Type: Article

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