A potential global boundary stratotype section and point (GSSP) for the Tarentian Stage, Upper Pleistocene, from the Taranto area (Italy): Results and future perspectives

Quaternary International

Volumn 383, Issue , 2015, Pages 145-157

  Negri, Alessandra ^a   Amorosi, Alessandro ^b   Antonioli, Fabrizio ^c   Bertini, Adele ^d   Florindo, Fabio ^e   Lurcock, Pontus C ^e   Marabini, Stefano ^b   Mastronuzzi, Giuseppe ^f   Regattieri, Eleonora ^g   Rossi, Veronica ^b   Scarponi, Daniele ^b   Taviani, Marco ^h   Zanchetta, Giovanni ^g   Vai, Gian Battista ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c ENEA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^h ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Foraminifera; Marine Upper Pleistocene; MIS 5.5; Paleomagnetism; Palynomorphs; Stable oxygen isotopes

Indexed keywords

CALCARENITE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALYNOMORPH; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRATIGRAPHIC BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; STRATOTYPE;

ITALY; PUGLIA; TARANTO;

CLADOCORA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84944516258     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.08.057     Document Type: Article

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