Constraining the onset of the Holocene "Neoglacial" over the central Italy using tephra layers

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 236-247

  Zanchetta, Giovanni ^a,b,c   Giraudi, Carlo ^d   Sulpizio, Roberto ^e   Magny, Michel ^f   Drysdale, Russell N ^g   Sadori, Laura ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d ENEA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^f université Bourgogne Franche Comté   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^h SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central Italy; Holocene; Paleoclimate; Tephrostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

APENNINES; CENTRAL ITALY; CLIMATIC CHANGES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HIGH MOUNTAINS; HOLOCENES; IN-PHASE; PALEOCLIMATES; PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; SOMMA-VESUVIUS; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TEPHRA LAYERS; TEPHROSTRATIGRAPHY;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; NEOGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TEPHRA;

ITALY;

EID: 84865400236     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.05.010     Document Type: Article

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