Climate and vegetation in the Upper Valdarno Basin (central Italy) as a response to Northern Hemisphere insolation forcing and regional tectonics in the late Pliocene-early Pleistocene

Italian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 137-148

  Bertini, Adele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central Italy; Climate; Flora; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Pollen; Upper Valdarno; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876073723     PISSN: 20381719     EISSN: 20381727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3301/IJG.2012.18     Document Type: Article

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