Middle-Upper Pleistocene record of 100-ka depositional cycles on the Southern Tuscany continental margin (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). Sequence architecture and margin growth pattern

Marine Geology

Volumn 326-328, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-13

  Ridente, Domenico ^a   Petrungaro, Renzo ^a   Falese, Francesco ^a   Chiocci, Francesco L ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Milankovitch cyclicity; Quaternary; Sea level changes; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CYCLICITY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; GROWTH PATTERNS; PLEISTOCENE; PROGRADATION; QUATERNARY; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY BODIES; SEISMIC PROFILES; SEPARATING SYSTEMS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHELF SEDIMENT; SOUTHERN TUSCANY; STACKING PATTERNS; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE; SUBSIDENCE CONTROL; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

GROWTH RATE;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CYCLICITY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOMETRY; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMICITY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ITALY; TUSCANY;

EID: 84868200168     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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