Depositional environments of the plio-pleistocene upper Valdarno Basin (Tuscany, Italy)

Italian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-53

  Ghinassi, Massimiliano ^a   Fidolini, Francesco ^b   Magi, Maurizio ^b   Sagri, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Facies analysis; Northern Apennines; Sedimentary environments; Upper Valdarno Basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876097495     PISSN: 20381719     EISSN: 20381727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3301/IJG.2012.07     Document Type: Article

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