The Plio-Pleistocene boundary in the Northern Apennine continental deposits as defined by the Faella magnetostratigraphic section in the Upper Valdarno

Bollettino della Societa Geologica Italiana

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 473-479

  Albianelli, Andrea ^a   Magi, Maurizio ^a   Mazzini, Menotti ^a   Napoleone, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continental sequences; Magnetostratigraphic calibration; Northern Apennines; Plio Pleistocene boundary; Upper Valdarno

Indexed keywords

EID: 84968724614     PISSN: 00378763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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