Pliocene to Pleistocene palynoflora and vegetation in Italy: state of the art

A Bertini - Quaternary International, 2010 - Elsevier
Fifty-four Italian pollen sites, spanning the last 5.3 Ma, have been the object of an updated
synthesis. The chronostratigraphic framework of floral and vegetational events illustrates the …

Climate changes in the central Mediterranean and Italian vegetation dynamics since the Pliocene

N Combourieu-Nebout, A Bertini… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2015 - Elsevier
Pollen records and pollen-based climate reconstructions from the Italian peninsula (central
Mediterranean) show clear signals of vegetation change linked to variations in water …

Regional warming: Pliocene (3 Ma) paleoclimate of Europe and the Mediterranean

AM Haywood, BW Sellwood, PJ Valdes - Geology, 2000 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The paleoclimate of the middle Pliocene (ca. 3 Ma) was generally warmer than present,
particularly at middle to high latitudes. It has been suggested that this period may represent …

[PDF][PDF] The Plio-Pleistocene thrust belt-foredeep system in the southern Apennines and Sicily (Italy)

E Patacca, P Scandone - Geology of Italy, 2004 - academia.edu
The upper Pliocene-lower Pleistocene terrigenous deposits of the Southern Apennines and
Sicily have significantly contributed to the understanding of the primary relationships …

The environment of Venice area in the past two million years

F Massari, D Rio, RS Barbero, A Asioli… - Palaeogeography …, 2004 - Elsevier
A ca. 950 m thick succession that was continuously cored in 1971 in Venice has been
revisited, in order to reconstruct the environmental history of the Venice area since about …

Emergence of Venice during the Pleistocene

DV Kent, D Rio, F Massari, G Kukla, L Lanci - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2002 - Elsevier
The Pleistocene history of sea-level change for the Venice region was reconstructed using
an integrated magneto-bio-cyclo-stratigraphy of lithofacies and a published palynofloral …

No major deglaciation across the Miocene‐Pliocene boundary: integrated stratigraphy and astronomical tuning of the Loulja sections (Bou Regreg area, NW Morocco)

E Van der Laan, E Snel, E De Kaenel… - …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
An integrated high‐resolution stratigraphy and orbital tuning is presented for the Loulja
sections located in the Bou Regreg area on the Atlantic side of Morocco. The sections …

Reconstruction of vegetation transects for the Messinian–Piacenzian of Italy by means of comparative analysis of pollen, leaf and carpological records

A Bertini, E Martinetto - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2011 - Elsevier
The first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the main micro (pollen)–and macro
(leaves, fruits and seeds)–palaeobotanical data from northern and central Italian sites …

The Monte San Nicola section (Sicily) revisited: A potential unit-stratotype of the Gelasian Stage

L Capraro, S Bonomo, A Di Stefano, P Ferretti… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Monte San Nicola area (Southern Sicily) offers a spectacular exposure of open-
marine sediments that were employed in 1998 for defining the Global Stratotype Section and …

[PDF][PDF] The role of central Italy as a centre of refuge for thermophilous plants in the late Cenozoic

E Martinetto - Acta Palaeobotanica, 2001 - researchgate.net
Several fruit and seed assemblages have been gathered from the Pliocene and Early
Pleistocene deposits of central Italy. Ongoing research on this material has led to the …