Evidence of climatic changes in the Venetian Coastal Plain (Northern Italy) during the last 40,000years

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 281, Issue , 2012, Pages 139-150

  Donnici, Sandra ^a   Serandrei Barbero, Rossana ^a   Canali, Giuseppe ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

D O cycles; Late Pleistocene; Pollen; Venetian Plain

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC VARIATION; COASTAL CITIES; COASTAL PLAIN; D-O CYCLES; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; GLACIAL PERIOD; INTERSTADIALS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; NORTHERN ITALY; POLLEN; POLLEN ANALYSIS; POLLEN GRAINS; POLLEN SEQUENCES; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; SEDIMENTATION RATES; STEPPE VEGETATION; VENETIAN PLAIN;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BOREHOLE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL PLAIN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STEPPE; VEGETATION;

ITALY; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE;

EID: 84868302132     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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