Incised valleys, their filling and mammal fossil record: a case study from Middle-Upper Pleistocene deposits of the Roman Basin (Latium, Italy)

GeoActa

Volumn , Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-87

  Milli, Salvatore ^a,b,c   Moscatelli, Massimiliano ^b   Palombo, Maria Rita ^a,b,c   Parlagreco, Luca ^d   Paciucci, Matted ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana   (Italy)

^d Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata al Mare   (Italy)

Author keywords

Base level change; Incised valleys; Italy; Mammal faunal units; Middle Upper Pleistocene; Roman Basin; Sequence stratigraphy; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85127271717     PISSN: 17218039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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