The Montalbano Jonico marine succession: An archive for distal tephra layers at the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary in southern Italy

Quaternary International

Volumn 383, Issue , 2015, Pages 89-103

  Petrosino, P ^a   Jicha, B R ^b   Mazzeo, F C ^a   Ciaranfi, N ^c   Girone, A ^c   Maiorano, P ^c   Marino, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar; Montalbano Jonico; Southern Apennines; Tephrochronology; Tephrostratotype

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; PLEISTOCENE; STRATOTYPE; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

APENNINES; BASILICATA; ITALY; MATERA; MONTALBANO JONICO; MOUNT VULTURE; POTENZA;

EID: 84938874691     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.10.049     Document Type: Article

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