Late Miocene-Middle Pleistocene sequences in the Po Plain - Northern Adriatic Sea (Italy): The stratigraphic record of modification phases affecting a complex foreland basin

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 42, Issue , 2013, Pages 50-81

  Ghielmi, Manlio ^a   Minervini, Matteo ^b   Nini, Claudio ^c   Rogledi, Sergio ^d   Rossi, Massimo ^a  

^a ENI S P A   (Italy)

^b Gulf of Suez petroleum company   (Egypt)

^c ENI Ghana   (Ghana)

^d SPES ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Allogroup; Foredeep; Late miocene; Messinian base level changes; Northern Adriatic Sea; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Po Plain; Tectonic sequence; Turbidite sedimentation

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DEPOSITS; LARGE DATASET; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ALLOGROUP; BASE LEVEL CHANGE; FOREDEEP; LATE MIOCENE; NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; PO PLAIN;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEEP WATER; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FOREARC BASIN; FORELAND BASIN; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SANDSTONE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC SURVEY; TORTONIAN-MESSINIAN BOUNDARY; TURBIDITE; UNCONFORMITY;

ADRIATIC SEA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PO PLAIN;

ZANCLEA;

EID: 84875221686     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.11.007     Document Type: Article

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