Multiproxy reconstruction of late pleistocene-holocene environmental changes in coastal successions: Microfossil and geochemical evidences from the po plain (Northern Italy)

Stratigraphy

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 153-167

  Dinelli, Enrico ^a   Ghosh, Anupam ^b,c   Rossi, Veronica ^a   Vaiani, Stefano Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coastal evolution; Geochemistry; Microfossils; Po plain; Postglacial

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL SEDIMENT; DEGLACIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; POSTGLACIAL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ITALY; PO PLAIN;

FORAMINIFERA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 84874912440     PISSN: 1547139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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