Late Holocene sedimentary changes in shallow water settings: The case of the Sele River offshore in the Salerno Gulf (south-eastern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)

Rendiconti Lincei

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-43

  Budillon, Francesca ^a   Senatore, Maria Rosaria ^b   Insinga, Donatella D ^a   Iorio, Marina ^a   Lubritto, Carmine ^c   Roca, Mariangela ^a,b   Rumolo, Paola ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inner shelf sedimentation; Late Holocene; Marine core litho stratigraphy; Morpho climatic variations; Salerno Gulf

Indexed keywords

LATE HOLOCENE; MARINE CORE LITHO-STRATIGRAPHY; MORPHO-CLIMATIC VARIATIONS; SALERNO GULF; SHELF SEDIMENTATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CATCHMENTS; LANDFORMS; RIVERS; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EID: 84858704799     PISSN: 20374631     EISSN: 17200776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12210-012-0164-6     Document Type: Article

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