Cave clastic sediments and implications for speleogenesis: New insights from the Mugnano Cave (Montagnola Senese, Northern Apennines, Italy)

Geomorphology

Volumn 134, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 452-460

  Martini, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allostratigraphy; Cave sediments; Northern Apennines; Phantomisation; Speleogenesis

Indexed keywords

ALLOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAVE DEPOSIT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; DOLOMITE; LITHOFACIES; LITHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPELEOLOGY;

ITALY; MONTAGNOLA SENESE; SIENA [TUSCANY]; TUSCANY;

EID: 80053053148     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.07.024     Document Type: Article

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