Paleosol architecture of a late Quaternary basin-margin sequence and its implications for high-resolution, non-marine sequence stratigraphy

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 112, Issue , 2014, Pages 12-25

  Amorosi, Alessandro ^a   Bruno, Luigi ^a   Rossi, Veronica ^a   Severi, Paolo ^b   Hajdas, Irka ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Geological Seismic and Soil Survey Emilia Romagna Region   (Italy)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alluvial architecture; Holocene; Interfluve; Late Pleistocene; Paleosol; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL; SOILS; SOLS;

ALLUVIAL ARCHITECTURE; HOLOCENES; INTERFLUVE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; PALEOSOL; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CORRELATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PALEOSOL; QUATERNARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84888080159     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.10.007     Document Type: Article

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