Large-scale single incised valley from a small catchment basin on the western Adriatic margin (central Mediterranean Sea)

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 100, Issue , 2013, Pages 245-262

  Maselli, Vittorio ^a   Trincardi, Fabio ^a  

^a ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adriatic Sea; Incised valley; Late Quaternary; Sapropel; Sea level

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; ADRIATIC; ADRIATIC SEA; CENTRAL BASIN; CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN; CHIRP SONAR; CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS; ESTUARY ENVIRONMENT; HIGH RATE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INCISED VALLEY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE; LATE QUATERNARY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PRECIPITATION RATES; PROGRADING WEDGE; REGIONAL SCALE; RIVERINE INPUT; SAPROPEL; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SHELF EDGES; SHORT-INTERVAL; SMALL CATCHMENT; WESTERN SIDE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SONAR;

LANDFORMS;

CATCHMENT; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EROSION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FILL; FRESHWATER INPUT; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INCISED VALLEY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE GLACIAL; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SAPROPEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHELF BREAK; SONAR;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84869884184     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.10.008     Document Type: Article

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