Calibration of the upper Valdarno basin to the plio-pleistocene for correlating the Apennine continental sequences

Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 131-166

  Napoleone, Giovanni ^a   Albianelli, Andrea ^a   Azzaroli, Augusto ^a   Bertini, Adele ^a   Magi, Maurizio ^a   Mazzini, Menotti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate changes; Magnetochronology; Pleistocene boundary; Pliocene correlations; Upper valdarno basin; Vegetational changes; Villafranchian faunas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983036487     PISSN: 22797327     EISSN: 22797335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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