The transition from wave-dominated estuary to wave-dominated delta: The Late Quaternary stratigraphic architecture of Tiber River deltaic succession (Italy)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 284-285, Issue , 2013, Pages 159-180

  Milli, Salvatore ^a   D'Ambrogi, Chiara ^b   Bellotti, Piero ^a   Calderoni, Gilberto ^a   Carboni, Maria Gabriella ^a   Celant, Alessandra ^a   Di Bella, Letizia ^a   Di Rita, Federico ^a   Frezza, Virgilio ^a   Magri, Donatella ^a   Pichezzi, Rita Maria ^b   Ricci, Valeria ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate change; Late Quaternary sequence stratigraphy; Micropaleontology; Plant macrofossils; Pollen; Tiber delta

Indexed keywords

LATE QUATERNARY; MACROFOSSILS; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; POLLEN; TIBER DELTA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; DEPOSITS; ESTUARIES; FLOODS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DELTA; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; ESTUARY; FACIES; FOSSIL; FOSSIL RECORD; LITHOFACIES; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PETROGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; POLLEN; PROGRADATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ITALY; TIBER RIVER;

FORAMINIFERA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 84873060538     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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