The subsurface geology of Rome: Sedimentary processes, sea-level changes and astronomical forcing

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 136, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-20

  Marra, Fabrizio ^a   Florindo, Fabio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aggradational sections; Glacial terminations; Milankovitch cycles; Paleomagnetism; Subsurface geology of Rome

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ARGON-ARGON DATING; ASTRONOMY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION;

ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME; TIBER RIVER;

EID: 84901442143     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.05.001     Document Type: Review

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