The lower to Middle Pleistocene Valle di Manche section (Calabria, Southern Italy): State of the art and current advances

Quaternary International

Volumn 383, Issue , 2015, Pages 36-46

  Capraro, Luca ^a   Macrì, Patrizia ^b   Scarponi, Daniele ^c   Rio, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronostratigraphy; Crotone Basin; Early Middle Pleistocene; GSSP; Southern Italy

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

CALABRIA; CROTONE BASIN; ITALY;

EID: 84944511038     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.08.055     Document Type: Article

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