Chemical and minero-petrographic features of plio-pleistocene fine-grained sediments in calabria, southern Italy

Italian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 101-115

  Perri, Francesco ^a   Borrelli, Luigi ^b   Gullà, Giovanni ^b   Critelli, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calabria; Composition; Fine grained sediment; Provenance; Southern Italy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894492000     PISSN: 20381719     EISSN: 20381727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3301/IJG.2013.17     Document Type: Article

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