Stratigraphic paleoecology of the Valle di Manche section (Crotone Basin, Italy): A candidate GSSP of the Middle Pleistocene

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 402, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-43

  Scarponi, Daniele ^a   Huntley, John Warren ^b   Capraro, Luca ^c   Raffi, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point; Italy; Middle Pleistocene; Mollusc; Sequence stratigraphy; Stratigraphic paleoecology

Indexed keywords

BIOFACIES; BIVALVE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRACKING; WATER DEPTH;

CALABRIA; CROTONE BASIN; ITALY;

EID: 84896994909     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.02.032     Document Type: Article

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