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Magnetostratigraphy and Pliocene-Pleistocene Boundary in Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Claudio Arias ,
Augusto Azzaroli ,
Giulio Bigazzi  and
Francescopaolo Bonadonna
Claudio Arias
Affiliation:
Laboratorio di Geocronologia e Geochimica Isotopica, Via Cardinale Maffi, 36, Pisa, Italy and Laboratorio Geologia Nucleare dell' Università Pisa, Italy’
Augusto Azzaroli
Affiliation:
Istituto di Geologia, Via Lamarmora, 4, Firenze, Italy
Giulio Bigazzi
Affiliation:
Laboratorio di Geocronologia e Geochimica Isotopica, Via Cardinale Maffi, 36, Pisa, Italy
Francescopaolo Bonadonna
Affiliation:
Laboratorio di Geocronologia e Geochimica Isotopica, Via Cardinale Maffi, 36, Pisa, Italy and Laboratorio Geologia Nucleare dell' Università Pisa, Italy
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Abstract

Analysis of some sedimentary series near Rome and comparison with other series in northern and southern Italy give evidence that Arctica islandica, considered a marker species for the beginning of the Pleistocene, appears during the Réunion paleomagnetic event (about 2 my ago). A period of erosion, called the Aullan erosional phase, is evident in the lower part of the late Villafranchian (= early Pleistocene, Olivola faunal unit).

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Quaternary Research , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 1980 , pp. 65 - 74
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University of Washington

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