Quantification of the coralline carbonate from a Serravallian rhodolith bed of the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (Stazzano, Alessandria, NW Italy);Quantification de la production carbonatée des algues corallines basée sur l'analyse d'une barre à rhodolithes d'âge Serravalien du Bassin Tertiaire du Piémont (Stazzano, Alessandria, nord-ouest de l'Italie)

Geodiversitas

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 137-149

  Basso, Daniela ^a   Quaranta, Francesca ^b   Vannucci, Grazia ^b   Piazza, Michele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbonate production; Coralline algae; Habitat persistence; Italy; Miocene; Piedmont; Rhodolith facies

Indexed keywords

ALGAE;

EID: 84859308983     PISSN: 12809659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5252/g2012n1a8     Document Type: Article

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