Provenance signatures for the Miocene volcaniclastic succession of the Tufiti di Tusa Formation, southern Apennines, Italy

Geological Magazine

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 423-442

  Perri, Francesco ^a   Critelli, Salvatore ^a   Cavalcante, Francesco ^b   Mongelli, Giovanni ^c   Dominici, Rocco ^a   Sonnino, Maurizio ^a   De Rosa, Rosanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

composition; mudrock; provenance; sandstone; southern Apennines; Tufiti di Tusa Formation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; ALUMINUM METALLOGRAPHY; CALCITE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FELDSPAR; KAOLINITE; MICA; SANDSTONE; SCANDIUM ALLOYS; SEDIMENTS; SILICATES; TERNARY ALLOYS; THORIUM ALLOYS; THORIUM METALLOGRAPHY; TITANIUM ALLOYS; TITANIUM METALLOGRAPHY; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCALOY; ZIRCONIUM METALLOGRAPHY;

CHEMICAL INDEX OF ALTERATIONS; COMPOSITIONAL VARIABILITY; MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITIONS; MUDROCK; PROVENANCE; SILICICLASTIC TURBIDITES; SOUTHERN APENNINES; TUFITI DI TUSA FORMATION;

WEATHERING;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; GEODYNAMICS; ILLITE; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MIOCENE; MUDSTONE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLLOSILICATE; PROVENANCE; RECONSTRUCTION; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SMECTITE; TURBIDITE; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

APENNINES; ITALY;

MICAS;

EID: 84859541914     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001675681100094X     Document Type: Article

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