Stratigraphic evidence of a Middle Pleistocene climate-driven flexural uplift in the Alps

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Scardia, Giancarlo ^a   De Franco, Roberto ^b   Muttoni, Giovanni ^c,d   Rogledi, Sergio ^e   Caielli, Grazia ^b   Carcano, Cipriano ^f   Sciunnach, Dario ^g   Piccin, Andrea ^g  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d Alpine Laboratory of Paleomagnetism   (Italy)

^e ENI S P A   (Italy)

^f Burren Resources Petroleum Ltd   (Turkmenistan)

^g Direzione Generale Territorio e Urbanistica   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY PLEISTOCENE; FLUVIAL DEPOSITION; INTER-DISCIPLINARY STUDIES; MEANDERING RIVERS; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SEISMIC PROFILES; SUBSURFACE STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; UNLOADING;

EROSION;

DEPOSITION; EROSION; GLACIATION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MEANDER; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

ALPS; ITALY; PO PLAIN;

EID: 84887815729     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012TC003108     Document Type: Article

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