Correlating Alpine glaciation with Adriatic sea-level changes through lake and alluvial stratigraphy

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 791-804

  Monegato, Giovanni ^a   Pini, Roberta ^b   Ravazzi, Cesare ^b   Reimer, Paula J ^c   Wick, Lucia ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alps; Glacioeustatic oscillations; Lake evolution; Late Pleistocene; Palynostratigraphy; Penultimate glaciation; Sediment provenance

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL FAN; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; DRAINAGE NETWORK; EEMIAN; GLACIATION; GLACIOEUSTACY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PETROGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; VEGETATION COVER;

ADRIATIC SEA; ITALY; LAKE FIMON; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; VENETO; VICENZA;

EID: 81055156299     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1502     Document Type: Article

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